On Equality

Those who produce nothing have no power to raise the lifestyle of anyone. Thanks to democracy, though, they can still promote equality by putting a drain on those who do produce.

Men are not equal. Neither were they equal at birth. A mother of two may attest to as much, with no blush of conscience. It is folly to take the oft quoted "all men are created equal" from its context as an argument against monarchy and use it to disguise robbery as righteousness. The robbery to which I refer is, of course, the redistribution of wealth from those who create it to those who do not.

It is a twofold privation: First, the fruits of labour are removed from him who worked. Second, the incentive for labour is removed from him who did not work.