Cornelius Vanderbilt:

You have undertaken to ruin me. I will not sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt Modern

Railroad magnate

Letter to former business partners, Daniel Drew, Jim Fisk, and Jay Gould

1868

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