Quote for this Campaign Season
"Thus
it is manifest that the best political community is formed by citizens
of the middle class, and that those states are likely to be
well-administered in which the middle class is large, and stronger if
possible than both the other classes, or at any rate than either singly;
for the addition of the middle class turns the scale, and prevents
either of the extremes from being dominant. Great then is the good
fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient
property; for where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may
arise an extreme democracy, or a pure oligarchy; or a tyranny may grow
out of either extreme- either out of the most rampant democracy, or out
of an oligarchy; but it is not so likely to arise out of the middle
constitutions and those akin to them. "
--Aristotle, from "Politics"
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