The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

My life has been nothing special. I am a quiet person who came from a very ordinary, middle-class Negro family.

would lead to a 40 percent cut in current benefits for middle-class beneficiaries, add five trillion dollars to our national debt and make the system weaker in the future.

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.