middle class Quotes

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger... ...

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

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot... ...