“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
From Created Equal, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 5 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/broadcasts/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=5.
Variant: 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.
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American economist, statistician, and writer 1912–2006Related quotes

“Milton Friedman vs Free Lunch Advocate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qe7fLL25AQ (1980s)

“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.”
Q&A session at quarterly meeting of the Philadelphia Bar Association (11 March 2011), as reported in "Sotomayor receives Philadelphia Bar's Diversity Award" by Jeff Blumenthal http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/jeff-blumenthal/2011/03/sotomayor-receives-philadelphia-bars.html?ed=2011-03-11&s=article_du&ana=e_du_pub, in Philadelphia Business Journal (11 March 2011).

From "The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics" (1983) in The Hauerwas Reader https://www.researchgate.net/publication/37719715_The_Hauerwas_reader (2001) eds. John Berkman and Michael Cartwright

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), p. 242

Business Week Mindanao http://www.businessweekmindanao.com/category/businessdaily-headlines/page/20/
2013

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), p. 37

“This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally.”
Speech after making into run off for mayor, April 23, 2006. http://cbs4boston.com/katrina/hurricanekatrina_story_112152722.html
2006