Teddy Roosevelt: “The public has a right, not a privilege, but, in my view, a duty, to see that there is in its behalf exercised such a…”

“The public has a right, not a privilege, but, in my view, a duty, to see that there is in its behalf exercised such a supervisory and regulatory power over the railroads as will insure that, while they give fair treatment, they themselves get it in return.”