There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
