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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

Political, Control, Perfect

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

Congress, Facts, Except

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Mark Twain

American, Congress, Except

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

Morning, School, True

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama

Working, Last, Economy

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

Society, Ignorance, Justice

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde

Money, Nothing, Rich

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire

Money, Art, Government

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett

End, High, Maybe

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden

Humble, Winner, Stand

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

Soul, Another, Earth

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
Gary Ryan Blair

Life, Live, Enough

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt Romney

Family, Health, History

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand

Future, Past, Nation

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

Family, Teacher, Smart

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Barack Obama

Mind, Special, Sit

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

Happiness, Greatest, Whole

I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama

Warrior, Middle

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal

Nothing, Genius, System

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill

Best, May, Belief

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin

Once, Few, Decide

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev

Working, Said, Once

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

Age, Religion, Sex

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
Mitt Romney

Government, Strong, Help

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
Mitt Romney

Life, Marriage, Religion

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, Help, General

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Power, Attitude, Hate

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George Orwell

Nothing, May, After

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Age, History, Poetry

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie

Money, Nothing, Else

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