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Such a theory, if ever adopted, would mean the ruin of the entire country--a ruin which would bear heaviest upon the weakest, upon those least able to shift for themselves.
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Roosevelt warns that adopting certain economic theories could lead to national ruin, especially affecting the vulnerable.
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