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Americans Are So Enamoured Of Equality They Would Rather Be Equal In Slavery Than Unequal In Freedom.
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Americans are so enamoured of equality they would rather be equal
in slavery than unequal in freedom.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
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Quote #312 There exists in the human heart a depraved taste for equality
which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom....
Men will never establish any equality with which they can be contented.
Whatever efforts a people may make, they will never succeed in reducing all the conditions of society to a perfect level....
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. -- Sir Herbert Samuel
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville...
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)...
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville...
What good is it to me, after all, if there is an authority always busy to see to the tranquil enjoyment of my pleasures and going ahead to brush all dangers away from my path without giving me even the trouble to think about i
if that authority, which protects me from the smallest thorns on my journey, is also the absolute master of my liberty and of my life?...
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of Wealth. Communism is the equal distribution of Poverty.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. -- Aristotle