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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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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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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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat

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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. – Samuel Johnson

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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. – W. Somerset Maugham

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. – William James

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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. – William Wordsworth

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In my mind Im a blind man doin time. – Tupac Shakur

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Folk music is a bunch of fat people. – Bob Dylan

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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. – J. P. Morgan

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