Democratic Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

— Barack Obama

When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

— Barack Obama

If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any…

— Mikhail Bakunin

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

— Lester Maddox

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that…

— Anonymous

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose…

— Abraham Lincoln

All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at…

— George Saunders

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

— Langston Hughes

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations…

— Carlos P. Romulo

America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred…

— Marco Rubio