Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.
Frederic BastiatBut we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us, not free association. We repudiate forced fraternity, not true fraternity. We repudiate the artificial unity that does nothing more than deprive persons of individual responsibility. We do not repudiate the natural unity of mankind under Providence.
Frederic BastiatSlavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
Frederic BastiatThe law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.
Frederic BastiatIt is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure them from injury. It is not true that the mission of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our will, our education, our sentiments, our works, our exchanges, our gifts, our enjoyments. Its mission is to prevent the rights of one from interfering with those of another, in any one of these things.
Frederic Bastiat