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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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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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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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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. – Plato

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. – Aristotle

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A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. – Wentworth Miller

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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G.K. Chesterton

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So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants. – Robert Mueller

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