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equality

«Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.»
«Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism»
«Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.»
«An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men»
«Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.»
«All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.»
«Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.»
«As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law arethe rule.»
«Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.»
«Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike»