Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like. ---- Lord Thurlow
An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.-- "Corporation" as defined by Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary
The opinion of the Court, after mature deliberation, is that this [a corporate charter] is a contract, the obligation of which cannot be impaired without violating the Constitution of the United States. -- Chief Justice John Marshall, Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819).
