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“There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.”

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Author:Frédéric Bastiat

“Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.”

“...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.”

God Faith Liberty

Author:Frédéric Bastiat

“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it's back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”

Truth Virtue Progress Society Falsehood Vice

Book:Economic Harmonies

Source: Economic Harmonies

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

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Author:Frédéric Bastiat

“Se su di un confine non passano le merci, vi passeranno i cannoni.”

Pace Guerra Mercato

Author:Frédéric Bastiat

“Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property. But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.”

Property Property Rights

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our decedents, is that doctrine which is founded upon this triple hypothesis: the radical passiveness of mankind, -the omnipotence of the law, -the infallibility of the legislature: this is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic.”

Law Democracy Strange Omnipotence Infallibility

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“[Q]ue se coloque, por fim, a Liberdade à prova - a Liberdade, que é um ato de fé em Deus e em sua obra.”

Book:A Lei

Source: A Lei

“Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.”

Violence Taxes Nation Liberté Gouvernement Anarchie Libertarien éTat Taxe Volontarisme

Author:Frédéric Bastiat