"The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upo

"The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world."

-- Joseph H. Choate

(1832-1917) attorney who successfully challenged the Income Tax Act of 1894

Source: United States Supreme Court, Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co.

(1898)