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Quote of the Day: Liberty and Equality
A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty.
And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a much closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.
— Milton Friedman
Something that seems more relevant today than ever.
Thanks, Seawriter. Very, very true.
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Love that quote! Gotta remember to print it out and put it on the fridge.
You can totally picture him saying this. The smile, the almost laughing tone in his voice that says, “C’mon, you can see this, can’t you?”.
I love him. He was our neighbor once in the Chicago burbs but I never met him.
Fantastic quote. And very apropos for our times.
Reminds me of this passage from Democracy in America, vol. 2, bk. 2, ch. 1:
“I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom; left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible; they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery. They will endure poverty, servitude, barbarism, but they will not endure aristocracy.”