What will the workers become once you won’t have any bread to give them and that private industry will be dead?
Category: Welfare State
FATAL GRADATION
The taxes have reached their ultimate limit. How to deal with it?
A MYSTIFICATION
The way I am exhausting them is so subtle that it remains beyond them. However, their sight is dazzled by the grand works I make them do.
TAKING FIVE TO GIVE BACK FOUR IS NOT GIVING
Si maladia opiniatria non vuit se guarire quid ilii facere? Purgare, saignare, clysterisare, repurgare, resaignare, reclysterisare.
THE STATE
The state having nothing that was not first taken from the people, cannot give lavishly to the people.
UNDER THE REPUBLIC – XV – SCRAMBLING FOR THE SPOILS
It is necessary to assess the root cause of the disease, and it would be childish to demand that the human heart be different from how nature created it.
UNDER THE REPUBLIC – XIV – SCHOOLING FREEDOM
The tide is carrying us towards the unlimited development of government action, towards an unlimited compression of true freedoms.
UNDER THE REPUBLIC – VIII
If we expect that the State distributes abundance everywhere, it is necessary to allow it to collect taxes everywhere.
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
We demanded that the State directly create happiness for the citizens.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
Unfortunately, the ideas of the day are being taken to a frightening extreme in the opposite direction: Introducing the State to everything.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
There is only one thing the public doesn’t want to deal with, and that is public affairs.
RESPONSIBILITY
Now, progress toward perfection always implies some degree of imperfection in the future as well as in the past.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
How can individuals delegate rights that they do not possess?
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
The people, accustomed to calling upon the state for everything, accuse the government, not of doing too much, but of not doing enough.
WAGES
Must we always start with the fatal premise that all those who govern are guardians and all the governed are wards?
WAGES
In a word, an admirable institution will, from its very inception, be turned into a branch of the police force.
SPEECH ON THE TAX ON WINES AND SPIRITS
I have seen vineyard owners on days when it hails, days on which they are ruined. They weep but do not blame the government.
JUSTICE AND FRATERNITY
The people will be crushed by taxes, and loan upon loan will be taken out. Once the present has been exhausted, the future will be devoured.