What would have happened if the state legislatures had been given a free hand to regulate, penalize, and blackmail corporations at will during the evolution of our national economic system may be left to the imagination of those who recall from their history the breezy days of "wild-cat" currency, repudiation, and broken faith which characterized the thirty years preceding the Civil War when the Federal judiciary was under the dominance of the states' rights school.
"Contemporary American History, 1877-1913"
Charles A. Beard
It seems to me that the effect and meaning of this is to penalize capital, to fine business success, as well as thrift and self-denial practised in the past, thereby tending to discourage saving.
"Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation"
Otto H. Kahn
For that A lady, whose lord keeps summer in the hills To nurse a gouty foot, should penalize His dutiful return by shutting doors And hanging out a ladder made of rope, Or prove its safety by rehearsing it Upon a heavier man.
"The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q""
Q (AKA: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch)