Frederic Bastiat Quotes About Libertarianism
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There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.
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The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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The plans differ; the planners are all alike.
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It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.
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