Thursday, August 5, 2010

Quotes of The Day: On Equality

"The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights." ~Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President and Author, Declaration of Independence)

"The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use." ~Abraham Lincoln (16th US President and Emancipator of the Slaves)

"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority." ~Lord Acton of Aldenham (Author, The History of Freedom in Antiquity)

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