Quote by Frederic Bastiat
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of co

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

Other quotes by Frederic Bastiat

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat

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Government
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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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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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Other Quotes from
legal
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And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away. – Peter Sotos

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legal

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years. – David Eagleman

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legal

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

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legal

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion. – Christopher Darden

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legal

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Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. – John Berryman

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On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home. – Joel Osteen

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Home

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year? – Bill Pascrell

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Leadership

The least unkindness from a friend is of greater smart than the hardest usage from an enemy. – Greek proverb

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Perspective