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It is easier to show the disor...

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Everyone wants to live at the ...

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Life, liberty, and property do...

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.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Government is the great fictio...

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

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

The state is the great fictiti...

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

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Each of us has a natural right...

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

They will come to learn in the...

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.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Often the masses are plundered...

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

In short, is not liberty the f...

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?

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

When goods do not cross border...

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Finally, is not liberty the re...

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

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.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

And this is what has taken pla...

And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

The balance of trade is an art...

The balance of trade is an article of faith.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

The law is the collective orga...

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything else, no matter how noble the cause, it becomes perverted and justice is weakened. Thus, the law has become perverted by stupid greed and false philanthropy.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

What, then is law [government]...

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

Sometimes the law defends plun...

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

When misguided public opinion ...

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

I find it hard to understand w...

I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State... Either the State is infallible, in which case we could not do better than to submit to it the entire domain of intelligent thought, or it is not, in which case it is no more rational to hand over education to it than the press.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

The law has been perverted, an...

The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

Frederic Bastiat 136 quotes

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