Frédéric Bastiat

Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of so…

"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…

"The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its prope…

Bastiat speaks with the greatest force to the highest order of intellects. At the same time, he is almost the only Political Economist whose…