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1. "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." ~ Frederic Bastiat
2. "Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property." ~ Frederic Bastiat
3. "Often the masses are plundered and do not know it." ~ Frederic Bastiat
4. "They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers." ~ Frederic Bastiat
5. "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?" ~ Frederic Bastiat
6. "Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?" ~ Frederic Bastiat
7. "And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?" ~ Frederic Bastiat
8. "When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will." ~ Frederic Bastiat
9. "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." ~ Frédéric Bastiat
10. "The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protected and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it." ~ Frédéric Bastiat
11. "Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation." ~ Frédéric Bastiat
12. "You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?" ~ Frédéric Bastiat
13. "In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder — is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?" ~ Frédéric Bastiat
14. "Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it." ~ Frédéric Bastiat
15. "...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." ~ Frédéric Bastiat
16. "The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, and their chains, and their hooks, and their pincers! Away with their artificial methods! Away with their social laboratories, their governmental whims, their centralization, their tariffs, their universities, their State religions, their inflationary or monopolizing banks, their limitations, their restrictions, their moralizations, and their equalization by taxation! And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun — reject all systems, and try of liberty — liberty, which is an act of faith in God and in His work" ~ Frédéric Bastiat

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