The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. – Frederic Bastiat
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism? – Frederic Bastiat
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