Frederic Bastiat Quotes

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

Violation of workers' rights persists, but workers can't turn to the authorities because it is the authorities themselves who commit the violations.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

The Court is corrupt: The fields are overgrown with weeds; the granaries are empty. Yet there are those dressed in fineries, With swords at their sides: Filled with food and drink, Possessed of too much wealth. This is called "Taking the lead in robbery.

When the State of Texas became ... part of the Union, flocks of vampires, in the guise of men, came ... with ... corrupt hearts and the most perverse intentions ... Because ... your industry excited ... their vile avarice ... many of you Mexicans have been robbed of your property, incarcerated ... murdered and hunted like wild beasts. Mexicans! Is there no remedy for you?

There were also very great robberies and murder of our principal men. This was done in pretense indeed for the public welfare, but in reality for the hopes of gain to themselves

O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!

You know, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

Democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum.