"Too much cannot be said against the men of wealth
who sacrifice everything to getting wealth. There is not 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, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses
— whether these uses be to speculate in stocks...
or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery...
Such a man is only the more dangerous if he occasionally does some deed like founding a college...
which makes those good people who are also foolish forget his real iniquity.
These men are equally careless of the working men, whom they oppress,
and of the State, whose existence they imperil. There are not very many of them...
and...they are curses to the country."
Teddy Roosevelt
