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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

— Susan B. Anthony

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.

— James Monroe

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

— Thomas Clarkson

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

— Herbert Croly

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— Jim Ryun

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

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

— Andrew Jackson

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

— Warren Beatty

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Every individual should have both the right to join a union and the right to not join a union should they so choose. It's about basic human freedom.

— Michael Baumgartner

✗Opposing Perspectives

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

— John H. Reagan