Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom

Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. – Mario Vargas Llosa

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As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. – Steven Pinker

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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. – Plato

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. – Barry Goldwater

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Republicans many times cant get the words equality of opportunity out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way. – Jack Kemp

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