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

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legal
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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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Freedom
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources. – P. J. ORourke

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock

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Rock n roll is ridiculous. Its absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now were wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss. – Bono

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So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. – Matthew Henry

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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. Were both Leos, we understand each other. – Tori Amos

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. – Liz Armbruster, on rbrault.blogspot.com

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I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all. – Edward VII

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Royalty, Kings, Queens