(4 quotes found)
“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
“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”
“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else”
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.”
