Top 50 All Men Were Created Equal Quotes
#1. You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach.
Rodney Dangerfield
#2. Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.
Joseph Heller
#3. I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.
Kirk Douglas
#4. The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman
#5. All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
Andy Rooney
#6. All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.
Evan Esar
#7. Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
Chester Himes
#8. When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.
Elisabeth Elliot
#9. The complementarian position acknowledges that God created men and women equal in being but assigned different-but equally valuable-functions in His kingdom and that this gender distinctiveness complements, or harmonizes, to fulfill His purpose.
J. Ligon Duncan III
#10. All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
Melissa Etheridge
#12. The Noble Lie - the idea that men are brothers and are created equal.
Pierce Brown
#13. Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
Adolf Hitler
#14. We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
Harry Truman
#16. We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction.
Mary McDermott Shideler
#17. Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life.
Ronald Reagan
#18. All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.
Deacon Jones
#19. For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.
Athol Fugard
#20. The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
John Updike
#21. The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
Anthony Trollope
#22. The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.
Warren Farrell
#23. When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
Sarah Vowell
#24. The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#25. Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.
Colson Whitehead
#26. This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.
George Carlin
#27. In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.
Bill Cosby
#28. You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#29. What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
Barack Obama
#30. "All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#31. In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.
Alan Keyes
#32. Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
Sidney Sheldon
#33. Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.
Alistair Cooke
#34. All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
Glenn Beck
#35. Men tend to treat women as fragile creatures, but our bodies were built to withstand pain and hard work, think with profound insight. We were created to do what men can't. And if that isn't reason enough for us to be treated equal, I'm not sure what is.
Caroline George
#36. The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#37. If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
Bill Gates
#38. Elizabeth Cady read the nation's great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women?
Joy Hakim
#39. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
Calvin Coolidge
#40. On July 4th, we renew our commitment to the American Idea-the belief that all men are created equal. We read the Declaration. We tell our kids the history. We remember those who died to protect our country. And along the way, we remind ourselves of why we love it.
Paul Ryan
#41. For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.
David Berlinski
#42. It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#43. Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.
Ted Nugent
#44. Ironically, the Democrats' great insistence on the natural equality of all white men prompted them to make a more glaring exception of non-whites. Taking seriously the motto "all men are created equal," Democrats called into question the very humanity of nonwhites in order to keep them unequal.
Daniel Walker Howe
#45. All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.
Harvey Milk
#46. All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.
Emmitt Smith
#47. All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in terms of "color" creed, race or national origin.
R.J. Rushdoony
#48. Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All men (including women) are created equal' and are afforded unalienable rights. Way to go, Mr. President! Stand up for what you believe and for the people of this country.
Barack Obama
#49. Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#50. A great principle of moral advancement, on par with "Love thy neighbor" and "All men are created equal," is the one on the bumper sticker: "Shit happens.
Steven Pinker