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Frederic Bastiat Quotes: The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
         

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.


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



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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.



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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.



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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.



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There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.



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?



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



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





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