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Frederic Bastiat Quotes
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Type: Economist Quotes Category: French Economist Quotes Date of Birth: June 30, 1801 Date of Death: December 24, 1850 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Frederic Bastiat Related Authors: John Kenneth Galbraith Thomas Sowell Jeremy Rifkin Martin Feldstein Adam Smith Milton Friedman John W. Snow Douglass North |
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Frederic Bastiat 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 Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. 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 beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frederic Bastiat Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. Frederic Bastiat The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Frederic Bastiat 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 When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. Frederic Bastiat |
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