The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
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The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.Claude Frédéric Bastiat
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desirelearned from the teachings of antiquitythat our writers on public affairs have in common They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
The harmlessness of the mission performed by law and lawful defense is self-evident the usefulness is obvious and the legitimacy cannot be disputed.
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If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain and since labor is pain in itself it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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