“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” IfsPersonsGovernmentFoundPoliticsFreedomLibertyDemocracyShareEqualEqualityDemocracies HaveBeing EqualEquality For AllLiberty And EqualitySocial EqualityLiberty And Justice For AllCinco De MayoDirect DemocracyEnglish Government Book:Politics Source: Politics
“Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.” WorldInspirationalHumansWisdomPoliticsFreedomHuman BeingsLibertyEconomyEqualityLiberalismPerilCivil LibertiesEnslavementHuman TraffickingTraffickingAbolitionistLiberty And EqualitySuffragistsEconomic Slavery Author:William Lloyd Garrison
“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.” FirstsHas BeensFatherPoliticsDifferencesLibertyCreativeEconomicUnderstoodEqualityOur TimeConformityFoundingFreedom And LibertyDespotismEmancipationOur Founding FathersLiberty And Equality Author:Barry Goldwater
“As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.” MomentsGovernmentPastHousePoliticsJusticeRightsBalanceReflectionMajorityEqualityMoodPreservesMinoritiesSenateDelicateContinuityWhim Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“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.” MindWould BeLawPoliticalPoliticsFreedomLibertyPrinciplesCasesRightsBearsProtectEqualSacredMajorityEqualityCivil RightsOppressionReasonableMinoritiesPatrioticOppressedEqual RightsFreedom LibertyPrice Of FreedomUnalienable RightsMajority RuleTyranny Of The MajorityEqual ProtectionPolitical OppressionMajority And MinorityMinority Government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.” ShouldStatesWould BeHappinessPoliticalPoliticsCasesEqualityUnhappyEgalitarianismEquality Of People Author:Samuel Johnson
“As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.” PeoplePoliticalPoliticsCommitmentClaimsEqualityPolitical Equality Author:Steven Pinker