Quote by Frederic Bastiat
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat

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Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism? – Frederic Bastiat

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legal
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? – Frederic Bastiat

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Freedom
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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? – Frederic Bastiat

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Education
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. – Denis Diderot

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I pinch myself because of the understanding that Ive been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get – to serve their government and their people at this level. – Marco Rubio

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Government

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government. – Madeleine Albright

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Government

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. – Kay Bailey Hutchison

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Government

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A good garden may have some weeds. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. – Henry David Thoreau

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best

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life

Keep your bike in good repair: motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking. – Author Unknown

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