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• No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early… — Thomas Malthus
• We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a… — James Madison
• Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. — George Bernard Shaw
• Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti
• My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants.… — Hannah More
• These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the… — Howard Zinn
• Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon… — Lewis Browne

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