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

Other quotes by 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? – Frederic Bastiat

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Education
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. – Frederic Bastiat

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Property
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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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Government
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The money that goes into Social Security is not the governments money. its your money. You paid for it. – Mitch McConnell

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Government

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

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Government

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. – Jon Meacham

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Government

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, wed have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. – William J. Clinton

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Government

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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Secrets

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

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Change

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that its too late by college. – Danica McKellar

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Education

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

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Imagination