A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., address to a joint session of Congress (August 12, 1974).
The word “listen” contains the
same letters as the word “silent.”
The man
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab (1813), Canto III.
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Usually, so far as improvement in the people’s economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.
Vilfredo Pareto, Manual of Political Economy (1927, Ann S. Schwier, trans., 1971), p. 301.
When equality is treated not as a medicine or a safety-gadget, but as an ideal, we begin to breed that stunted and envious sort of mind which hates all superiority.
Clive Staples Lewis, “Equality,” The Spectator, Vol. CLXXI (August 27, 1943).
Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.
Winston Churchill, as cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), p. 535.
Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.
Vilfredo Pareto, Manual of Political Economy (1927, Ann S. Schwier, trans., 1971), p. 281.
I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason.
Clive Staples Lewis, “Equality,” The Spectator, Vol. CLXXI (August 27, 1943).
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation of Friedrich von Logau, “Retribution”, Sinngedichte III, 2, 24.
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
Vilfredo Pareto, Manual of Political Economy (1927, Ann S. Schwier, trans., 1971), p. 90.