"What, then is law [government]? It is the……" — Frederic Bastiat
"What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense."
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Frederic Bastiat
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86 Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat has 86 quotes on this site.
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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the…
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as…
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the…
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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons…
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It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the…
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More Collective Quotes
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.…
— Alan Ball
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as…
— Bob Beauprez
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by…
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I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that…
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal…
— David Cameron
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What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the…
— Tony Campolo
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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
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And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can…
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