"Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism?"
― Frederic Bastiat
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― Frederic Bastiat
More From Frederic Bastiat
- "The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
- "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?"
- "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
More In Legal
- "These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it’s so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run."― Michael Bloomberg
- "It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it’s too bad that we don’t have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team’s lawyers."― Carol Burnett
- "The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer."― Ben Nighthorse Campbell