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"The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others."
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"Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."
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"I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more."
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"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."
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"I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated."
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"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
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"The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent."
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"Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings."
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"People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me."
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"One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights."
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"How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community."
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"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
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"It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."
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"Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf."
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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations."
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"Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact."
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"We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat."
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"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
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