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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is so in the world of business just as it is so in the world of labor, and it is as idle to desire to put an end to…”

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It is so in the world of business just as it is so in the world of labor, and it is as idle to desire to put an end to all corporations, to all big combinations of capital, as to desire to put an end to combinations of labor.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt compares the inevitability of business combinations to labor unions, emphasizing their coexistence.

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