Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

In spite of what thomas jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.