Quote #5

'Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone.'

More from Frederic Bastiat

  1. '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…
  2. '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 …
  3. 'The profit of the one is the profit of the other.'
  4. 'No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall procla…
  5. 'By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.'
  6. When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
  7. 'The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.'

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