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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 11, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories equalityTags Edmund Burke

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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