Quote #1

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

More from Frederic Bastiat

  1. 'By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.'
  2. 'The profit of the one is the profit of the other.'
  3. 'In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of th…
  4. 'Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone.'
  5. 'It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of …
  6. 'No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall procla…
  7. When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

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