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 […] You can only aim at equality by giving some the right to take things from others. And what ultimately happens when you aim at equality is that A and B decide what C shall do for D… except that they take a little bit of a commission off on the way.
-- Milton Friedman, Free To Choose @2:10
