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Milton Friedman1912–2006

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.

Milton Friedman on freedom

From Created Equal, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 5 transcript).

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