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

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

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

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

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

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Leacock

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx

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

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

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
Rita Rudner

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