Frédéric Bastiat said this quote

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

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

~ Frédéric Bastiat

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

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

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We need not be surprised at this. On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle never has been, and never will be, carried out to the end.

~ Frédéric Bastiat