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Teddy Roosevelt: “The only course left is active corporate regulation—that is, the control of corporations for the common good—the…”

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The only course left is active corporate regulation—that is, the control of corporations for the common good—the suppression of the evils that they work, and the retention, as far as may be, of that business efficiency in their use which has placed us in the forefront of industrial peoples.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt advocates for active corporate regulation to ensure corporations serve the common good while maintaining efficiency.

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