Equal Quote by William Lloyd Garrison

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

— Ayanna Pressley

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this…

— Thomas Paine

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

— Mercy Otis Warren

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

— George Washington

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

— Alexander Hamilton

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

— Nina Turner

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed…

— Susan B. Anthony

The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their…

— Alexander Hamilton

While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material…

— Anonymous

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we…

— Marco Rubio