Voltaire Quotes

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.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

All men are created equal.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

It took America three-quarters of a century of agitation and four years of war to learn the meaning of the word "Liberty." God grant to teach us by easier lessons the meaning of the words, "equal rights.

Asserting the equality of all men before the law, we hold that it is the duty of the government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and exact justice to all citizens, of whatever nativity, race or persuasion—religious or political.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

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

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

The principles for which we stand are the principles of fair play and a square deal for every man and every woman in the United States.

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and ‘I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for which I am prepared to die for.

The only natural society is a society of liberty and equality.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?