Fr D Ric Bastiat Quotes
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Business“In the first place, the word universal conceals a gross sophism.”
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Business“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”
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Business“Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”
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Business“ The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causesbare egotism and false philanthropy. ”
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Business“ I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed... ”
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Business“ Competition is merely the absence of oppression. ”
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Business“ What, then is, law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. ”
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Business“ 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. ”
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Business“ 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? ”
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Business“ The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. ”
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Business“ There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen. ”
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Business“ 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. ”
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Business“ And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? ”
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Business“ The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. ”
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Business“ In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect but to a series of effects. ”
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Business“ Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim -- when he defends himself -- as a criminal. ”
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