To preserve the benefits of what is called civilized life, and to remedy, at the same time, the evil it has produced, ought to be considered as one of the first objects of reformed legislation.
—Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice, 1797
We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1941