It is not because men have made laws that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property… - Frédéric Bastiat

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

It is in the nature of men to rise against the injustice of which they are the victims. When, therefore, plunder is organized by law, for the profit of those who perpetrate it, all the plundered classes tend, either by peaceful or revolutionary means, to enter in some way into the manufacturing of laws. 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.

Woe to the nation where this latter thought prevails amongst the masses, at the moment when they, in their turn, seize upon the legislative power!

Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.