Government is the great fiction, through which everybody en… - Frédéric Bastiat

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

Frédéric Bastiat

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Frédéric Bastiat (30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was an early free-market economist and classical liberal French author.

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Alternative Names: Claude Frédéric Bastiat • Frederic Bastiat

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