American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.
My main fight is for freedom and equality.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.
The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy.
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor
No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.