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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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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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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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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In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. – Carroll Quigley

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But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives. – Jeb Bush

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Government

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. – Theodore Bikel

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Government

Weve got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed. – Theresa May

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