Equality Quote by Roger Scruton

“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

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional…

— George Polya

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such…

— Anonymous

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

— Edmund Burke

These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . . very instructive…

— James Madison

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

— African Spir

Liberty and equality are magical words.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty. But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and decay. Yet…

— Peter J. Carroll

“The idea of forcing every thing to an artificial equality has something, at first view, very captivating in it,” Burke writes. “It has all…

— Yuval Levin

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

— Charles Sumner