[thecavemaster]

This applied to a specific case before Lincoln, but it is relevant here:

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel." -Abe Lincoln

Speech to Illinois legislature, Jan. 1837... See Vol. 1, p. 24 of Lincoln's Complete Works