Covenant Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and…

— Thomas Paine

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to…

— Edmund Burke

“The effort to transform natural inequalities into social equality could only lead to greater, more brutal inequality; the socialist effort to transform individual diversity…

— David Horowitz

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

— Nicola Sturgeon

“Equality,' said Steerpike,' is the thing. It is the only true and central premise from which constructive ideas can radiate freely and be operated…

— Mervyn Peake

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has…

— Barry Goldwater

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to…

— Abraham Lincoln

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Equality as a condition for the development of individuality was also the meaning of the concept in the philosophy of the Western Enlightenment. It…

— Erich Fromm

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and…

— Anonymous

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

— Mary Wollstonecraft