Best quotes by Frederic Bastiat on Liberty

Checkout quotes by Frederic Bastiat on Liberty

• ‟ Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

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• ‟ Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

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• ‟ In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

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• ‟ Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

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• ‟ Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

  - Frederic Bastiat