The phrase "a classic statement of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a well-known or widely accepted expression or declaration that encapsulates a particular idea or sentiment.
Example: "The phrase 'all men are created equal' is a classic statement of the principles of democracy."
Alternatives: "a timeless expression of" or "an iconic declaration of".
More distinguished for insight into problems of government and cool logic than for eloquence, these works became a classic statement of American governmental, and more generally of republican, theory.
The argument begins with Strauss's observation that the Declaration of Independence, with its assertion of "self-evident" truths and "unalienable Rights," was a classic statement of natural right, in keeping with Aristotle and Plato.
A classic statement of this view was Julian Tudor Hart's 1971 'inverse care law', which stated that: "The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served.
1935 Wabbaseka, Arkansas May 1 , 1998Pomona, California Eldridge Cleaver, in full Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (born 1935, Wabbaseka, near Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. died May 1 , 1998 Pomona, California), American black militant whose autobiographical volume Soul on Ice (1968) is a classic statement of black alienation in the United States.
For a classic statement of this account of practical reasoning, see Goldman (1970).
(Sider 2001, pp. 156 8 refers to this as the "arbitrariness worry". For a classic statement of the problem, see Sosa 1987. For a more recent statement, see section 4 of the entry on ordinary objects).
To me, that reads like a classic statement for the role of directional selection in promoting evolutionary change via the transformation of the genetic structure of a population.
As Mellon saw it, this was "scientific taxation," a program he detailed in 1924 in his classic statement of supply-side economics, "Taxation: The People's Business".
The classic statement of this fear is a famous memo that Bill Kristol wrote in 1993, when he had just started out as a political strategist and the Clinton administration was preparing to propose some version of national health care.
We have known for decades that no species exists as a single panmictic unit (Ehrlich and Raven 1969 being the classic statement of this point, albeit in the context of species concepts).
The classic statement of this position is Edward Bullough's "'Psychical Distance' as a Factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle," an essay published in the British Journal of Psychology in 1912.
