"The earliest efforts toward abolition, women’s suffrage, professional medical education, nuclear disarmament, and many of the early efforts in support of universal public education were funded by philanthropists, often in the face of indifference from elected public officials. These innovations are at the heart of private philanthropy and promote the common good. When we abandon private philanthropy, we surrender that initiative. Democracy has aways had its defects, and private philanthropy is often a remedy."