The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
All men are created equal.
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
All men are born equally free.