“Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy…”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism....We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not ag…”— Theodore Roosevelt, stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net