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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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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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone 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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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. – P. J. ORourke

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics its always about the next challenge. – Tony Blair

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This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now its all checks and no balances. – Gracie Allen

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