Equality or liberty

“A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed. Now that conclusion is based both on evidence from history, across history and also I believe on reasoning which if try to follow through the implications of aiming first at equality will become clear, you can only aim at equality by giving some people the right to take things from others and what ultimately happens when aim at equality is that A and B decide what C shall do for D, except they take a little bit of commission off on the way.”- Milton Friedman