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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks t

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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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

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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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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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When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest, and so forth, I switch off quite early. – Christopher Hitchens

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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