Frederic Bastiat Quotes
Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving
Citations
Bastiat, Frédéric. Selected Essays on Political Economy. Foundation for Economic Education, 1995.
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This proverb is a succinct statement of one governmental philosophy of coping with poverty and hardship. It is often uttered when compassion takes the form of intangibles, prayer, advice, training, and search for root causes.
Claude-Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, writer and a prominent member of the French Liberal School.