The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
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About Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat was a 19th-century French classical liberal theorist and assembly member. Claude-Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, writer and prominent member of the French liberal school. Read more on Wikipedia →
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