Frederic Bastiat
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat
- That which is seen and that which is not seen
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen: it is well for us, if they are foreseen.
