We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers.
Under present-day conditions it is necessary to have corporations in the business world as it is to have organizations, unions, among wage workers. Address at Providence (1901)
We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.
Gentlemen: you have now reached the last point. If anyone of you doesn't mean business let him say so now. Address to U.S. Army recruits (1898)