Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He was notable for developing the important economic concept of opportunity cost, and for penning the influential Parable of the Broken Window. His ideas have gone on to provide a foundational basis for libertarian and the Austrian schools of thought.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. greatness
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. government
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? the law
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. 22 quotes from Robert Browning
22 quotes from Robert Browning
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. 53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. 5 other thoughts from Isadora Duncan
5 other thoughts from Isadora Duncan
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. 58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher