Frédéric Bastiat

Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of so…

A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

"The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its prope…

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Why Women Should Vote" (Jane Addams, 1910) is one of several selections devo…

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain independently chosen by the readers. Volume 60 features excerpts from two German philoso…