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Teddy Roosevelt: “What we need is not vainly to try to prevent all combination, but to secure such rigorous and adequate control and…”

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What we need is not vainly to try to prevent all combination, but to secure such rigorous and adequate control and supervision of the combinations as to prevent their injuring the public, or existing in such forms as inevitably to threaten injury.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt advocates for strict regulation of capital combinations to protect the public interest.

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