Corporations Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“More and more it is evident that the State, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Government, deriving its authority from the people as a whole, must act as a fiduciary to protect the natural resources held in trust from…

— Mary Christina Wood

The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make it a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall,”

— Thomas Jefferson

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

— Rebecca Solnit

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

— Anonymous

“Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.”

— Steven Magee

Large corporate entities are more untrusted than trusted. And they've earned that by the way they've done things.

— Ronald M. Shaich

The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But…

— George Monbiot