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As Frederic Bastiat put it, “The State is the great fictitious entity by which everyone expects to live at the expense of everyone else.”[8]
Harry Browne • How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
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To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, ... See more
“Just that. Listen, wasn’t it Odo who said that where there’s property there’s theft?” “ ‘To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.’
Ursula K. LeGuin • The Dispossessed (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
Bastiat foresaw disaster if Proudhon’s plans were put into practice. If lending were not rewarded, there would be no lending.