"We worship money instead of honor. A billionaire in our estimation is much greater in the eyes of the people than the public servant who works for the public interest. It makes no difference if the billionaire rode to wealth on the sweat of little children and the blood of underpaid labor. No one ever considers the Carnegie libraries steeped in the blood of the Homestead Steel workers, but they are."
"We do not remember that the Rockefeller Foundation is founded on the dead miners of the Colorado Fuel Company and a dozen other performances. We worship Mammon."
"Until we get back to the fundamentals and return to the Giver of the Tables of the Law and His teachings these conditions are going to remain with us. It is a pity that Wall Street with its ability to control all the wealth of the nation and to hire the best brains of the country has not produced some statesmen, some men who could see the dangers of bigness and of the concentration of the control of wealth."
"Instead of working to meet the situation, they are still employing the best law brains to serve greed and selfish interest. People can only stand so much, and one of these days there will be a settlement."
-Senator Harry S. Truman, speech on Senate floor, December 20, 1937.
