"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."

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"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."

Robert Toombs, American Politician

Equality, Government, States

"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

Arthur Ashe, American Athlete

Equality, History, Life

"I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Equality, Compassion, Justice, Love

"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Equality, America, Battle, Dying, Fighting

"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."

Mary Douglas, British Scientist

Equality, Needs

"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

Equality, Men, Women, Opportunity

"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

Equality, Lie, Fraud, Freedom

"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

Equality, Women, Leadership, Representation

"You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Equality, Love, Rights, Community

"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule."

James Bovard, American Author

Equality, Vision, Fathers, Founding

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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."

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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."

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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

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"The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth."

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"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

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"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

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"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."

"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

"I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness."

"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."

"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."

"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."

"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."

"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."

"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule."

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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

"The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth."

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."