"Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value."
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"The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
"The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us."
"Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him."
"People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal."
"Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority."
"One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison."
"No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible."
"Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics."
"I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men."
"That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs."
"We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us."
"An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak."
"If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself"
"I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work."
"To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American."
"A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods."
"Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change."
"The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more."
"What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?"