Notable Quote

"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means, as De Tocqueville described it, a new form of servitude."

Hayek, Friedrich event 1948

From Individualism and Economic Order

Context: From "Individualism: True and False," originally the Finlay Lecture delivered at University College, Dublin, in December 1945; collected in Individualism and Economic Order (1948).