Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Frédéric Bastiat, fully Claude Frédéric Bastiat
French Political Economist, Classical Liberal Theorist
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
"A science of economics must be developed before a science of politics can be logically formulated. Essentially, economics is the science of determining whether the interests of human beings are harmonious or antagonistic. This must be known before a science of politics can be formulated to determine the proper functions of government."