True, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations.

The equality of Utopia can be the equality of the highest and fullest development possible for each of its inhabitants.

Equality among the States is equity.

The "equality of men" which we worship: is there not a higher inequality?

Civil immunities and political privileges were just before them, the learned professions were opening to them, social equality and honorable domestic connections would soon be theirs.

There is no class here; it is the real thing, and the only part we have seen yet of America where equality is a fact.

Each person maintains that equality is the dictate of justice, except where he thinks that expediency requires inequality.

Equality of opportunity is the real object of our laws and institutions.

Equality of taxation without representation is tyranny.

Their equality in the Senate was a big price to pay for the Union, but, as the event has shown, not too great.

The great mass of the people felt instinctively that revolution had become a necessity and was unavoidable if Hungary was to pass from the old mediaeval order to the establishment of modern institutions and was to become a state where equality before the law should be the ruling standard.

Without it, the equality of man is a pretty figure of speech; with it, democracy is possible.

To my mind racial equality is an empty term.

"But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their (the American people) desires: equality is their idol; they make rapid and sudden efforts to obtain liberty and if they miss their aim, resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing can satisfy them without equality, and they would rather perish than lose it."De

As equality among subjects is the great source of concord, Alfred gave the same laws to the Danes and English, and put them entirely on a like footing in the administration both of civil and criminal justice.

If the courts do not perform this, their first and most sacred duty, I apprehend that order cannot be permanently maintained, for this is equality before the law; and equality before the law is the cornerstone of order in every modern state.

War does not entirely annihilate all distinctions of caste even in France, where Equality is a good word, and it does not blend all intellectual and moral qualities into one type of character, in spite of the discipline of compulsory service and the chemical processes which mix flesh and blood together in the crucible of a battlefield.

Equality is a mental state, not a matter of birth or breeding, wisdom or ignorance.

The equality of their representation in the Senate and the veto power of the President are the constitutional guaranties which the smaller States have that their rights will be respected.

There is a saying that all men are equal after dinner: and it is true that, while in the material wealth we seek in our working hours equality is a chimera, yet in the intellectual pursuits that belong to leisure there is no bar to the equality of all, except the difference of individual capacity and desire.

Even in 1800, when the votes for Jefferson and Burr in the Electoral College were equal, it is notorious that this equality was simply the result of their being supported on the same ticket,the former for the office of President, and the latter for that of Vice-President.

The United States do not know how great will be the transformation of their internal condition, and the increase of their good renown abroad, when their churches, their schools, their public vehicles, their ballot-boxes, shall be widely accessible to persons of color, when equality and liberty shall have become realities on their soil; they do not know how great will be their peace and their prosperity.

The social equality of servants with their masters and other members of their master's families, is an obvious deduction from Ex. xxi.

This equality is the very essence of the Constitution.

Some have alleged that religious equality was an Oriental idea, and borrowed from the relation of subjects to an Asiatic despot, which paved the way for it; some attribute civil equality to the Roman law; some find the germ of both in Stoical morals.