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The equality of our Founding Fathers

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories equalityTags Barry Goldwater

Equal in slavery

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

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories equalityTags Alexis de Tocqueville

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