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This is an age of combination, and any effort to prevent all combination will be not only useless, but in the end vicious, because of the contempt for law which the failure to enforce law inevitably produces.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “This is an age of combination, and any effort to prevent all combination will be not only useless, but in the end…”
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Roosevelt argues that attempts to prevent all combinations in business are futile and harmful.
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