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

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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad. – Iain Duncan Smith

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I wasnt a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadnt written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. – Madeleine Albright

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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. – James Madison

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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. – Tony Campolo

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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science. – Wanda Sykes

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Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. – Joe Brown

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Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring — quite often the hard way. – Pamela Dugdale

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