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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

Failure, Ignorance, Envy

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.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Liberty, Nation

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson

Law, Liberty, Others

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

Blessings, Socialism, Capitalism

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Happiness, Men

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.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Law, Rights

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, Future

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

Failure, Adversity, Heartache

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nature, Woman, Service

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

Great, Travel, Forward

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle

Try, Worst, Inequality

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle

Men, Respect, Democracy

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

Freedom, Equality, Rather

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato

Nature, God, Men

Our necessities never equal our wants.
Benjamin Franklin

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
Hedy Lamarr

Father, Loved, Ashamed

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates

Woman, Made, Once

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Aristotle

Mind, May, State

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Hate, Long, Value

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Men, Ambition

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
Marilyn Monroe

Men, Business, Worry

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

Everyone, Common, Contented

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

Before, Thousand, Century

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya

Happiness, Mind, Virtue

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

Women, Men, Ambition

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Live, Together

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Matthew Henry

Heart, Him, Loved

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
Bill Cosby

Education, Time, Understand

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway

Age, Risk, Hesitation

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.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Men, America

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