Some thoughts for our times:

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1814

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is
destroyed.” -- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)

“Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions. . . . The first requisite is knowledge, full and complete; knowledge which may be made public to the world.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1901

“The economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. . . In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936