Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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

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

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

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.

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

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.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed — Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

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

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work.

The promise of our country is that the rules are fair.

In America, our origins matter less than our destinations and that is what democracy is all about.

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

We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.

I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

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

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

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

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.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

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