See Animal Farm by George Orwell: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, one of the writers the Founders quoted often, said it first;
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Of the Simplicity of Criminal Laws in different Governments
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments:
in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
The Spirit of the Laws; Book VI, By Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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