Claude Frédéric Bastiat

( Bastait, Frederick Bastait, Frederik Bastait, Frederek Bastait, CF Bastait or even Bastait Free University), just hit the link or enter Bastiat in the google box below.

Alternate acceptable renderings are:

C. F. Bastiat, F. Bastiat, Frédéric Bastiat, and Frederic Bastiat

Bastiat is pronounced: bästyä´

I type it wrong myself far too often.

If you are going to college, you might as well learn something.

"The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended." - C. F. Bastiat

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other." - Voltaire

"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." - George Bernard Shaw

"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." - Doug Casey

"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." - G. Gordon Liddy

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson

"Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." - Bastiat

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." – P.J. O'Rourke

"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." – Benjamin Disraeli

"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another." – Milton Friedman

"I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights." – Abraham Lincoln

"Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult." – Andre Marrou

"America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes." – Ayn Rand

"A strong body makes a strong mind. As to the species of exercise I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks." – Thomas Jefferson

"Washington is not America. It has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire." – Richard Maybury

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