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"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."
menu_book Capitalism and Freedom
View Full Quote"From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time."
menu_book The Constitution of Liberty
View Full Quote"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
menu_book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
View Full Quote"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."
menu_book Democracy in America
View Full Quote"There is a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom."
menu_book Democracy in America
View Full Quote"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."
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Democracy in America
A profound analysis of American democratic society and its implications for the future of democracy, exploring the nature of equality, individualis...
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