If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.-- Frederic Bastiat

The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.-- Frederic Bastiat

Which nations are the happiest, most moral and most peaceful? Those among which the law intervenes least in private activity.-- Frederic Bastiat

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

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.-- Frederic Bastiat

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. -- Frederic Bastiat

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker. -- Frederic Bastiat

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.-- Frederic Bastiat

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.-- Frederic Bastiat