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My experience has been that the man who talks over-loudly of his hostility to corporate wealth can not be trusted even to antagonize corporate wealth when it is wrong.
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Roosevelt warns that those who vocally oppose corporate wealth may not be trustworthy in their opposition to its abuses.
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