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Equal Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
- The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.
- Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the…
- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and…
- In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
- My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has…
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
- An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
- The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
- The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and…
- The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
- All men are created equal.
More Equal Quotes
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles
- Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan
- Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt
- I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin