From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Equality may perhaps be a right but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors since all men are equal but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors for from the time of Jefferson onward the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards not downwards.

Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty and love from woes.

I believe in equality for everyone except reporters and photographers.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.