Frédéric Bastiat Quotes

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.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

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

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.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

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