Claude Frédéric Bastiat (30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly.
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? Use this quote
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Use this quote
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Use this quote
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? Use this quote
