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2023 November 24
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"We clamour for equality chiefly in areas where we cannot ourselves hope to obtain excellence." |
"The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors." |
"A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom." |
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2023 November 23
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"Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority." |
"All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others." |
"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks." |
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2023 November 22
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"Democracy...is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." |
"It is the greatest inequality to try to make unequal things equal." |
"Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion." |
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2023 November 21
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." |
"In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing." |
"Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people." |
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2023 November 20
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"In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law." |
"Men being by nature all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent which is done by agreeing with other men, to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living in a secure enjoyment of their properties." |
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;" |
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