Frédéric Bastiat

“The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.”

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

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