Famous quotes containing the words equal and/or area:
“Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,—if only that the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)