Benjamin Tucker Quotes

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions.

Private markets, where everyone has an equal opportunity is the only system that works.

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

Sama means 'equal' in Sanskrit; I chose 'Samasource' because I thought it really reflected a value that I had and that I wanted the company to have, which is that everyone has equal capabilities and deserves an equal chance.

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

In America, opportunity and equality are not a zero-sum game

The supreme test of a democracy is the measure of equality of opportunity that it affords to its citizens to rise to the highest point of authority and position.

Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down.

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