Teddy Roosevelt...(from speech in Osawatomie, KS, 8/31/1910)... (when Republicans were sane)
The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being.
A worthwhile read: The History of Corporate Personhood (2014)
"How we got to the point where a for-profit corporation – not a church mind you – can lay claim to religious rights is a bit complicated. It all goes back to a legal fiction known as corporate personhood."
/nosanitize
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/history-corporate-personhood