The people are beginning to doubt whether in the long run democracy and absolutism can coexist in the same community; beginning to doubt whether there is really a justification for the great inequalities in the distribution of wealth. This movement must necessarily progress; the people’s thought will take shape in action. And it lies with our lawyers to say in what lines that action shall be expressed: wisely and temperately or wildly and intemperately; in lines of evolution or in lines of revolution.
US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), “the words of justice Brandeis”, edited by Solomon Goldman, Henry Schuman – NY 1953, p. 120