He himself says that the labor of the theatres is as fertile, as productive as any other (not more so); and this may be doubted; for the best proof t… - Frédéric Bastiat

Our adversaries consider, that an activity which is neither aided by supplies, nor regulated by Government, is an activity destroyed. We think just the contrary. Their faith is in the legislator, not in mankind; ours is in mankind, not in the legislator.

These classes, according to the degree of enlightenment at which they have arrived, may propose to themselves two very different ends, when they thus attempt the attainment of their political rights; either they may wish to put an end to lawful plunder, or they may desire to take part in it.

The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first.