Quote by: Frederic Bastiat

The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, and their chains, and their hooks, and their pincers! Away with their artificial methods! Away with their social laboratories, their governmental whims, their centralization, their tariffs, their universities, their State religions, their inflationary or monopolizing banks, their limitations, their restrictions, their moralizations, and their equalization by taxation! And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun — reject all systems, and try of liberty — liberty, which is an act of faith in God and in His work


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Author Bio


  • NameFrederic Bastiat
  • DescriptionFrench classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly
  • AliasesClaude Frédéric Bastiat
  • BornJune 30, 1801
  • DiedDecember 24, 1850
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Economist; Author; Politician