"... the worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended." -- Frederic Bastiat
"This is the way an opinion gains acceptance in France. Fifty ignoramuses repeat in chorus some absurd libel that has been thought up by an even bigger ignoramus; and, if only it happens to coincide to some slight degree with prevailing attitudes and passions, it becomes a self-evident truth." Frederic Bastiat /How well said, how true today./
"Do what you will, gentlemen; you cannot give money to some without taking it away from others. If you absolutely insist on draining the taxpayer dry, well and good; but at lest do not treat him like a fool. Do not tell him: 'I am taking this money from you to repay you for what I have already taken from you." -- Frederic Bastiat /BHO take heed/
one more:
"...competition in modern society is far from playing its natural role. Our laws inhibit it at least as much as they encourage it; and to answer the question whether inequality is due to the presence or the absence of competition, we need only observe who the men are who occupy the lime light and dazzle us with their scandalous fortunes, to assure ourselves that inequality, in so far as it is artificial and unjust, is based on conquest, monopolies, restrictions, privileged positions, high government posts and influence, administrative deals, loans from the public funds -- with all of which competition has no connection." -- Frederic Bastiat
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