We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.
Frederic Bastiat
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone expects to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frederic Bastiat
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.