The Hour of Fate Quotes

“No man is above [the law] and no man is below it. The crime of cunning, the crime of greed, the crime of violence, are all equally crimes … This is a government of the people; including alike the people of great wealth and of moderate wealth, the people who employ others, the people who are employed, the wage-worker, the lawyer, the mechanic, the banker, the farmer.” On a return visit to Butte, Montana, he said: “I have the right to challenge the support of all good citizens and to demand the acquiescence of every good man. I hope I will have it; but once for all I wish it understood that even if I do not have it I shall enforce the law.” He spoke to members of various unions that day but his real audience was in New York. Roosevelt told Lodge he had been inspired by the “knock down and dragout fight with Hanna and the whole Wall Street”
― Susan Berfield, The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism

“There is not8 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,” Roosevelt wrote in a magazine article in 1895. “These men are equally careless of the workingmen, whom they oppress, and of the State, whose existence they imperil.” As”
― Susan Berfield, The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism

“Morgan began to speak. He demanded52 to know why Roosevelt hadn’t warned him. “This is just what we did not want to do,” said Roosevelt. “If we have done anything wrong,” Morgan replied, “send your man to my man and they can fix it up.” “That can’t be done.” “We don’t want to fix it up,” Knox interjected. “We want to stop it.” “Are you going to attack my other interests, the Steel Trust and the others?”
― Susan Berfield, The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism