Famous Quotes

"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."

Frederic Bastiat on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Frederic Bastiat

• "And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?"

• "In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?"

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

• "Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?"

• "And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?"