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If you wish to prosper, let y...

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Since the natural tendencies ...

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

There are people who think th...

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Society is composed of men, a...

Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error.

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When plunder becomes a way of...

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

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It's always tempting to do go...

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

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The most urgent necessity is,...

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

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This question of legal plunde...

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

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The state is the great fictit...

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

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Trade barriers constitute iso...

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

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The politician attempts to re...

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

If socialists mean that under...

If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is done now; we desire that it be done better. There is however, a point on this road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it.

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Slavery, protection, and mono...

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Life, liberty, and property d...

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

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Each of us has a natural righ...

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 th...

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

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In short, is not liberty the ...

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

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Government is the great ficti...

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

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Is not liberty the destructio...

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

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The mission of the law is not...

The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.

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