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Quote by Frederic Bastiat
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made law

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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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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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody 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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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. – Oscar Wilde

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No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. – Maria Edgeworth

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“Whatever is not nailed down is mine.” This is the motto of the exploiter. “Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down.” This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future. – David Starr Jordan, 1910

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