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The only corporation that has cause to dread it is the corporation which shrinks from the light, and about the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
Said by
Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that only dishonest corporations fear transparency and scrutiny.

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