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"The State, let us never forget, has no resources of its own. It has nothing, it possesses nothing that it does not take from the workers."

— Bastiat, Frédéric event 1848

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"The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else."

— Bastiat, Frédéric event 1848

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"The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow a purpose exactly contrary! The law become the instrument of every kind of greed, instead of being its check!"

— Bastiat, Frédéric event 1850

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"When a portion of wealth passes from the person who possesses it, without his consent and without compensation, to anyone who does not possess it, whether by force or by fraud, I say that property is violated, that plunder is committed."

— Bastiat, Frédéric event 1850

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Essay published in the Journal des Débats on 25 September 1848, satirizing the proliferation of groups demanding to live at public expense, and def...

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