by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights…This implies a belief in the equality of man in one sense; in their inequality in...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“A society that puts equality…ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.” Courtesy of liberty-tree
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“We grant no dukedoms to the few,\\ We hold like rights and shall;\\ Equal on Sunday in the pew,\\ On Monday in the mall.\\ For what avail the plough or sail,\\ Or land, or life, if freedom fail?” Courtesy of liberty-tree
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“[Some people] have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic...
