Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, ha...

Of course any violence, brutality, or corruption, should not for one moment be tolerated.

It is an absurdity to expect to eliminate the abuses in great corporations by State action.

The cost of doing Government business should be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing a private business.