Quotes by : Frédéric Bastiat

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....

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All....

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

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

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue....

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

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

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

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