"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
― Frederic Bastiat
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― Frederic Bastiat
More From Frederic Bastiat
- "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?"
- "The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
- "Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism?"
More In Government
- "It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government."― Rick Perry
- "I don’t believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it’s so outdated."― Michael Bloomberg
- "We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters."― Stephen Harper