Quote#Politics & Power
If the middle class prefer an alliance with the aristocratic or…
Quote byJohn Bright · 1811–1889
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the chairman of an anti-income tax meeting in Birmingham (11 March 1862), quoted in Public Addresses by John Bright, M.P., ed. J. E. Thorold Rogers (1879), p. 86.
English (original)
If the middle class prefer an alliance with the aristocratic or ruling party, to the cordial co-operation and help of the great nation now excluded from the franchise and from all political power, they must be content with a profligate government expenditure, and a taxation burdensome from its amount, and insulting from its inequality and injustice.
— John Bright
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