Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result.

We are looking forward to a non-racial, just and egalitarian society in which color, creed and race shall form no point of reference.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

Turtle makes all men equal.

We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

In our insistence upon equality of opportunity has our system advanced beyond all the world.

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

Our aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispension in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour—constitutional, social and economic.

I hope that liberty and equality and opportunity lie within your heart because the hopes of millions of Americans depend on it.

We are a nation without classes or special privileges.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

Here everyone is his own master. Civil liberty places all inhabitants on an equal footing. The humble cannot be oppressed by the mighty, nor the poor by the rich.

Equality is equity.

I really believe in being egalitarian.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.

We do have to ask ourselves as a culture, what do we want to be? You know, what are our founding values? And if we are a society where everybody should have that fair shot and get a second chance, then we should take the necessary steps to implement that and make it a reality.

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.