“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
“There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.”
“If any class deserves to be protected and assisted by the government, it is the class who are banished from their native land in search of the bare means of subsistence" Charles dickens, american notes”
“I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence -- providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”
“I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.”
“Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.”