Equal Quote by William H. Seward

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of…

— Aristotle

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

— Elizabeth Price Foley

If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state.

— Asma Jahangir

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

— Voltaire

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of…

— George W. Romney

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

— Zadie Smith

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

— Harold Laski

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

— Earl Warren

The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the…

— Albert J. Nock

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson