depraved taste for equality

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom". http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”