Frederic Bastiat Mugs

Description: Frédéric Bastiat quote: It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

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: Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.

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 profit of the one is the profit of the other.

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: Le plus sûr, pour que les lois soient respectées, c’est qu’elles soient respectables.

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: 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: 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: Taxation is theft

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

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