Frederic Bastiat
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
education
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
freedom
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat
government
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
-Frederic Bastiat
great
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
-Frederic Bastiat
legal
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
travel
Other Authors to Explore
Flavius Josephus
Franz von Papen
Petra Nemcova
Reese Witherspoon
Thomas Merton
Immanuel Kant
Joseph Story
Tony Shalhoub