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.
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and i… - Frederic Bastiat
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and i…
- Frederic Bastiat
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers ar… - Frederic Bastiat
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers ar…
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. - Frederic Bastiat
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we … - Frederic Bastiat
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we …
The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesse… - Frederic Bastiat
The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesse…
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 al… - Frederic Bastiat
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 al…
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. - Frederic Bastiat
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
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 before… - Frederic Bastiat
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 before…
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at th… - Frederic Bastiat
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at th…
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