Frederic Bastiat Libertarian Quotations

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike...

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.