From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
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.
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 be safe.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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.
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.