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

~Frederic Bastiat

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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

Topics: Everyone Expense Forget Live State Wants

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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

Topics: Because Beforehand Caused Contrary Exist Existed Fact First First Place Laws Liberty Life Made Make Men On The Contrary Place Property

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

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

~Frederic Bastiat

Topics: Defend Each God His Liberty Natural Person Property Right Us

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

~Frederic Bastiat

Topics: Course Despotism Destruction Including Legal Liberty

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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

Topics: Finally Individual Injustice Law Lawful Liberty Only Organizing Punishing Rational Restricting Right Self-Defense Sphere

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And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

~Frederic Bastiat

Topics: Association Beat Conscience Education Faster Heart Labor Liberties Liberty Makes Name Press Shakes Trade Travel Union Very Whose World

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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

Topics: Better Come Competition Customers End Endure Expense Impoverished In The End Invested Learn Monopoly Over Own Rich Than Will

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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

~Frederic Bastiat

Topics: Borders Cross Goods Soldiers Will

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Economist

Born: June 30th, 1801

Died: December 24th, 1850

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