Socialism is the “Big Lie” of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While it promises prosperity, equality, and security, it has shown itself historically—in the long run—to deliver only mediocrity, poverty, misery, and (ultimately) tyranny.
The theoretical, and much longed-for equality, has never actually been achieved except in the sense that everyone (except the political class, of course) is equal in his or her sharing of the society's scarcity and mediocrity.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. – W.Churchill
Some men have a mistaken notion of justice and wish to substitute for justice their particular vision of fairness.
Justice is blind, and fairness cannot be measured but differently by each man and in each case. In America, we hold forth the promise of justice for all, not fairness for which there is no common standard.
Attempts by politicians to bring forth from government fairness rather than justice has tended, as we witness, to dispirit public virtue and promote the growth of public evils. This has been found true in everything from our exercise of law and the courts to the injustices perpetrated upon the American people—both high and low—through the various forms of public and corporate welfare.
Stop the madness!
