"In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality."
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"When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer."
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"In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have."
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"True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man."
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"The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things."
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"In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery."
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"Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?"
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"The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing."
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"All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws"
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"An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental."
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"Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself."
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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
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"Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence."
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"How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?"
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"By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy."
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"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers."
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"For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king."
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"You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong."
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"The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences."
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"A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny."
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