Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat
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
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism? – Frederic Bastiat
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. – Frederic Bastiat
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. – Aristotle