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.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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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.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains.
~ Jeremy Bentham
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Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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