Quotes by : Frédéric Bastiat

There is in all of us a strong disposition to regard what is lawful as legitimate, so much so that many....

I can never look at these apparent contradictions between the great laws of nature without a feeling....

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite....

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create....

We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object....

But things have been so admirably arranged by the Divine inventor of social order that in this, as in....

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action,....

Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are....

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.......