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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.