Frederic Bastiat

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#god #liberty #faith

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

— Frederic Bastiat

#entity #everyone #expense #fictitious #great

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

#come #competition #customers #end #endure

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

— Frederic Bastiat

#each #god #his #liberty #natural

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

— Frederic Bastiat

#endeavors #everybody #everybody else #expense #fiction

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

#expense #forget #live #state #wants

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

— Frederic Bastiat

#despotism #destruction #including #legal #liberty

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

#individual #injustice #law #lawful #liberty

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

#doing #every #faculties #freedom #full

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#cross #goods #soldiers #will