“That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
"A Word More About America" (1885)
“Once this was a nation of farmers, builders, inventors, creators, explorers, and thinkers. Now we are a nation of bubblehead academic poseurs, race-guilt hucksters, and keening middle-class "victims" of imaginary wrongs.”
Source: We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (2009)
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
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1890s
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Keynote speech: Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference - Washington, D.C., June 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/us/politics/2006obamaspeech.html<br>Partially quoted out of context as "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation." in a Focus on the Family political mailer, reproduced in <br class="br">2006 <br class="br">Context: Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America's population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers. And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let's read our bibles. Folks haven't been reading their bibles.
“No democracy can survive without a thriving middle class and entrepreneurs are our job creators.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
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Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Clinton: 'Raise Taxes On The Middle Class!' 8-1-2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ua13_gYQn0; as quoted in "Hillary Promises ‘We Are Going To Raise Taxes On The Middle Class’ <nowiki>[Video http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/03/hillary-promises-we-are-going-to-raise-taxes-on-the-middle-class-video/</nowiki>"] by Derek Hunter, The Daily Caller (3 August 2016). <br class="br">Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)
