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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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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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. – Barry Goldwater

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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. – Walter Lippmann

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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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