I hold no brief for the poor against the rich nor for the wage-earner against the capitalist.

Exceptional capacity in business, as in any other line of life, should meet with exceptional reward.

Rich men have served this country greatly.

Washington was a rich man.

But it is very clear that excessive profits from the control of natural resources, monopolized by a few, are not worth to this Nation the tremendous price they cost us.
We have allowed the great corporations to occupy with their own men the strategic points in business, in social, and in political life.