Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"There can be no halt in the course we have deliberately elected to pursue, the policy of asserting the right of the Nation, so far as it has the power, to supervise and control the business use of wea..."

"We best serve the interests of the honest railway men when we announce that we will follow out precisely this course."

"There must be progressive legislative and administrative action for the correction of the evils which every sincere man must admit to have existed in railroad management in the past."

"Today I wish to say a word to you about the first and most important feature of this task, the control of the common carriers doing an interstate business, a control absolutely vested in the Nation."