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“. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

“In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder — is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

“How is it that the strange idea of making the law produce what it does not contain—prosperity, in a positive sense, wealth, science, religion—should ever have gained ground in the political world?”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

“the purpose of the socialists is to suppress liberty of association precisely in order to force people to associate together in true liberty.)”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law