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Frederic Bastiat [1801-1850] French

Rank: 101
Economist

Claude-Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist and author who was a prominent member of the French Liberal School. He developed the economic concept of opportunity cost, and introduced the Parable of the Broken Window.

Education, God, Government, Legal, Travel

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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.		101
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.		102
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.	God	103
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.		104
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?		105
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.		106
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.	Government	107
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?	Legal	108
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.		109
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?	Education, Travel	110
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.		111
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?		112

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