Bastiat Mugs

Description: June 30, 1801 - December 24, 1850 French economist and writer -- He is best known for his book 'The Law' where he argued that law must protect rights such as private property, not "plunder" others' property.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: Le plus pressé, ce n’est pas que l’État enseigne, mais qu’il laisse enseigner. Tous les monopoles sont détestables, mais le pire de tous, c’est le monopole de l’enseignement.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: L'État c'est la grande fiction à travers laquelle tout le monde s'efforce de vivre aux dépens de tout le monde.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. 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.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Description: Just a gentle reminder that you have things of your own to fix.

Description: Taxation is theft

Description: and he'll eat for the rest of his life. Give a man someone else's fish and he'll vote for you.

Description: Some names every libertarian should know.