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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. – Will Rogers

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The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule. – James Bovard

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Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. – Tom Robbins

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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. – Francis Wright

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