Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would work the utmost mischief to the entire body politic.
Roosevelt acknowledges the inevitability of large corporations in modern industrialism while cautioning against their unchecked power.
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