Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. – 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
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism? – Frederic Bastiat