"The influence of my party has spread far deeper and further.

We number amongst our adherents the majority of the professional classes and the majority of the thinking people amongst the community of moderate means.

Why, if you consider the legislation of the last seven or eight years, you will see how they have been driven to embrace some sort of socialism.

Nothing so detestable and short-sighted as our financial policy has ever been known in the history of the world.

The middle classes, meaning by the middle classes professional men and men of moderate means, bore the chief burden of the war.