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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Equality |
| Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Party Politics. | 1 |
| Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves: but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. Samuel Johnson—Boswell’s Life of Johnson. (1763). | 2 |
| For the colonel’s lady an’ Judy O’Grady, Are sisters under their skins. Kipling—Barrack Room Ballads. Introduction. | 3 |
| Par in parem imperium non habet. An equal has no power over an equal. Law Maxim. | 4 |
| Quod ad jus naturale attinet, omnes homines æquales sunt. All men are equal before the natural law. Law Maxim. | 5 |
| 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. Lincoln—Gettysburg Address. Nov. 19, 1863. | 6 |
| For some must follow, and some command Though all are made of clay! Longfellow—Keramos. L. 6. | 7 |
| Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight? Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. L. 383. | 8 |
| Et sceleratis sol oritur. The sun shines even on the wicked. Seneca—De Beneficiis. III. 25. | 9 |
| Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction. Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 47. | 10 |
| Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 246. | 11 |
| Heralds, from off our towers we might behold, From first to last, the onset and retire Of both your armies; whose equality By our best eyes cannot be censured: Blood hath bought blood and blows have answer’d blows; Strength match’d with strength, and power confronted power: Both are alike; and both alike we like. King John. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 325. | 12 |
| She in beauty, education, blood, Holds hand with any princess of the world. King John. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 493. | 13 |
| The trickling rain doth fall Upon us one and all; The south-wind kisses The saucy milkmaid’s cheek, The nun’s, demure and meek, Nor any misses. E. C. Stedman—A Madrigal. St. 3. | 14 |
| Equality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of the society. Steele—Tatler. No. 225. | 15 |
| The tall, the wise, the reverend head, Must be as low as ours. Watts—Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Bk. II. Hymn 63. | 16 |
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