"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?" ~Frédéric Bastiat
"As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.” ~Frédéric Bastiat
"Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.” ~Frédéric Bastiat
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." ~Frédéric Bastiat
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." ~Frédéric 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 are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” ~Frédéric 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.” ~Frédéric Bastiat
"Often the masses are plundered and do not know it." ~Frédéric 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 all is the monopoly of education.” ~Frédéric Bastiat
"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." ~Frédéric Bastiat
“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.” ~Frédéric Bastiat
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ~Frédéric Bastiat
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