Tuesday, May 15, 2012

I've got Bastiat on the mind....

Frederic Bastiat quotes:

"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else."


"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."


"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."


"No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate)."

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

"There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so."


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


When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it..

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