Born Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

— Evan Esar

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.

— Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

— Voltaire

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

— Andy Rooney

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

— Thomas Hobbes

I believe every man is born equal.

— Peter Norman

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

— David Allan Coe

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

— Erich Fromm

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in…

— Anonymous

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other…

— Anonymous

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

— Mikhail Bakunin