Frederic Bastiat Quotes

Frederic Bastiat
French Economist
Born: Jun 30, 1801
Died: Dec 24, 1850
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Frederic Bastiat
Government Great Live Everybody Everybody Else Else Through Endeavors Expense Fiction Which
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
Live State Everyone Forget Expense Wants
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
Life Property Liberty Made Men First On The Contrary Laws Fact Make First Place Because Caused Exist Existed Beforehand Contrary Place
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Frederic Bastiat
Great Live Else State Everyone Everyone Else Seeks Entity Expense Fictitious Which
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. Frederic Bastiat
God Property Natural Liberty His Person Natural Right Us Each Right Defend
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. Frederic Bastiat
Know Masses Often
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Frederic Bastiat
Freedom Liberty Long Every Other Faculties He Make Does Doing His Person Short While Persons Use Full Harm

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