Forty for you sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

The desire to annoy no one to harm no one can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal and I never loved any other man as much.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality are of infinite value but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: 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.

When we see persons of worth we should think of equaling them, when we see persons of a contrary character we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor, as such differences become less it grows feeble, and when they disappear it will vanish too.

As a man is said to have a right to his property he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

You are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves to the God in you the God who is equally present in others.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter control or singly cope with.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

Democracy... is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals, nay it is treachery to comrades.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect from event to event is often carried on by secret steps which our foresight cannot divine and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good, and good may bring forth evil both equally unexpected.

They [Young People] have exalted notions because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations, moreover their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things / and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning / all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything / they love too much hate too much and the same with everything else.

Thou ought to be nice even to superstition in keeping thy promises and therefore equally cautious in making them.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Speech is the twin of my vision it is unequal to measure itself it provokes me forever it says sarcastically Walt you contain enough why don't you let it out then?

In black neighborhoods everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board for totally different reasons.

Women have equal chances and equal rights to attain Godhead

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another, but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equal.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors since all men are equal but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors for from the time of Jefferson onward the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards not downwards.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable rather than a vindictive peace.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

The human understanding from its peculiar nature easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

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.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries, that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le

Ambidextrous adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

To equal a predecessor one must have twice they worth.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

With patient and firm determination I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Once made equal to man woman becomes his superior.

In every power of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy which would be the case in a general state of equality.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Where divinity is sought after one ought always to behave in the spirit of Love devoid of the slightest trace of hate envy and anger. When one cultivates the inner look one attains the conviction of the basic equality of all.

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

While civilization has been improving our houses it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

In the usual progress of things the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

In politics as in religion it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce, In man they join to some mysterious use.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind and there is no happiness equal to contentment, there is no disease like covetousness and no virtue like mercy.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was holding us together.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane human being has ever given his assent.

I look on all with an equal eye.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics that action and reaction are equal and opposite that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Any government that supports protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little provided you are not equally courteous to all for that would be injustice.

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him but out of his side to be equal with him under his arm to be protected by him and near his heart to be loved by him.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

For success attitude is equally as important as ability.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Honor and respect all religions equally.

One wanders to the left another to the right. Both are equally in error but are seduced by different delusions.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

In government-directed economies the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

A man willing to work and unable to find work is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Every one's voice was given equal weight in the empire ruled over by Rama.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax, government transfer payments have become less progressive.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

That equals to being a fool having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that but they are broke.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Even as you are a citizen of your motherland but respect all countries, also respect all religions equally.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Marriage is like a cage, one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.

There is little friendship in the world and least of all between equals.

In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.

It is for us to pray, not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire, forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Friendship between equals flourishes service under a king is respectable it is good to be business-minded in public dealings and a handsome lady is safe in her own home.

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.

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled, time and time again. Either make it separate but equal, or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press and I will provide you with a republic.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion anger fear and sadness and to me they're of equal value to happiness excitement and inspiration.

Every adversity every failure every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

No advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.

True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

God equals man minus ego.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob, all authority is equally bad.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say nothing is equal to tobacco, it's the passion of the well-bred and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practiced.

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities so the social process requires standardization of man and this standardization is called equality.

The perfection of our union especially our commitment to equality of opportunity has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said 'In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.'