"The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'“

-Paul Ryan

posted in Equality

Paul Ryan quote on Equality: "The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has bee..." - Aesthetic Wallpaper & Wisdom

Other Quotes by Paul Ryan

Discover more inspiring quotes by Paul Ryan

"To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois."

-Paul Ryan

PoliticsView Quote

"Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life."

-Paul Ryan

MorningView Quote

"Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere."

-Paul Ryan

BusinessView Quote

"What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing."

-Paul Ryan

AttitudeView Quote

"And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them."

-Paul Ryan

"The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'"

-Paul Ryan

FreedomView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

EqualityView Quote

"You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil."

-Muhammad Ali Jinnah

EqualityView Quote

"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."

-Erich Fromm

EqualityView Quote

"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."

-Marlo Thomas

EqualityView Quote

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

-Anatole France

EqualityView Quote

"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."

-Steven Pinker

EqualityView Quote