Frederic Bastiat Quote for the DayWe must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations.” Posted on September 2, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments Read more »
Frederic Bastiat Quote for the Day“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it’s back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.” Posted on September 1, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments Read more »
Frederic Bastiat Quote for the Day“How is it that the strange idea of making the law produce what it does not contain—prosperity, in a positive sense, wealth, science, religion—should ever have gained ground in the political world?” Posted on August 31, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments Read more »
Frederic Bastiat Quote for the Day“In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual’s right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder — is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?” Posted on August 30, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments Read more »
Frederic Bastiat Quote for the Day“Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.” Posted on August 29, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments Read more »
Frederic Bastiat Quote for the Day“the purpose of the socialists is to suppress liberty of association precisely in order to force people to associate together in true liberty.” Posted on August 28, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments Read more »
Frederic Bastiat Quote for the Day“We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.” Posted on August 27, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments Read more »
Frederic Bastiat Quote for the Day“The profit of the one is the profit of the other.” Posted on August 26, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments Read more »
