Author: Frederic Bastiat

Quotes

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

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

- Frederic Bastiat

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?

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

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

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

- Frederic Bastiat

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

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

- Frederic Bastiat

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