“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.” ReasonGovernmentPoliticsFreedomLibertyEconomicsLogicLibertarianAnarchySelf KnowledgeUnseenTaxationTheftFallacyCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismAncapAustrian School Of EconomicsKeynesian Author:Frédéric Bastiat
“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.” GovernmentNationsFreedomLibertyTaxesLibertarianSocialismAnarchyTaxationTheftMafiaCoercionCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismAncapCountriesThugs Author:Frédéric Bastiat