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“A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice

“The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.”
― Frederick Douglass, The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series 1, Vol. 3: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, 1855-1863

“Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“the purpose of the socialists is to suppress liberty of association precisely in order to force people to associate together in true liberty.)”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law