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To: cotton1706

The two political parties are supposed to argue and fight. Will Durant said that liberty and equality are mortal enemies.


40 posted on 09/27/2013 9:41:21 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline
"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 and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way."
-- Will Durant
44 posted on 09/27/2013 9:48:59 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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