A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives.

Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

Organized money hates me-and I welcome their hatred!

Great accumulations of wealth cannot be justified on the basis of personal and family security. In the last analysis such accumulations amount to the perpetuation of great and undesirable concentration of control in a relatively few individuals over the employment and welfare of many, many others.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

There can be no real and effective 'freedom' in a society based on the power of money, in a society in which the masses of working people live in poverty and the handful of rich live like parasites.