Tuesday, May 19, 2009

"Malefactors of Great Wealth"

"There is not in the world a more ignoble character
than the mere money-getting American, insensible
to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only
on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to
the basest uses....to speculate in stocks....careless of
the working men, whom they oppress, and of the State,
whose existence they imperil."

--Theodore Roosevelt, who also coined the phrase,
"malefactors of great wealth"

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