“For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”

Speech in Philadelphia (1776)

Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IX, Section 82, p. 547

The Doll

Source: The Killer Angels

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 233

2000s, Is Diversity Good? (2003)
Context: To allow slavery to be introduced into free territories, where it had not hitherto existed, was, Abraham Lincoln held, a very bad thing. His opponent, Stephen A. Douglas, held that it was a sacred right, belonging to the people of each territory, to decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery among their domestic institutions. According to Douglas, Lincoln wanted to destroy the diversity upon which the union had subsisted, by insisting that all the states ought to be free. But for Douglas himself, the principle of 'popular sovereignty' did not admit of exceptions. There was to be no diversity, no deviation from the right of the people to decide. For Lincoln the wrongness of slavery meant that no one, and no people, had the right to decide in its favor. For Lincoln, the principle of human equality, "that all men are created equal", did not admit exceptions.

"The Idea of Equality"
Source: Proper Studies (1927)

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Aristotle, Politics, Book V 1301a.29-31
Politics