Quotes

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881

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

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another–no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. Friedrich Engels, preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man. Henry Wallace, Speech in New York City, May 8, 1942