>The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both. --- From Created Equal, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 5 transcript).
>There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart 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. --- "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.