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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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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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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Education
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does. – William Blake

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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they dont like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this – it hurts too much. – Donald Trump

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I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay. – Cindy Margolis

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Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. – Jaffar Hussein

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