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Page 34 - it was never in before; it is in a situation to which we have not adjusted our laws. Our laws are still meant for business done by individuals; they have not been satisfactorily adjusted to business done by great combinations, and we have got to adjust them. I do not say we may or may not; I say we
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Page 222 - for which, the people have given their mandate. Our purpose is the restoration of freedom. We purpose to prevent private monopoly by law, to see to it that the methods by which monopolies have been built up are legally made impossible. We design that the limitations on private
Page 109 - free, self-governing people? I am not afraid of the judgments so expressed, if you give men time to think, if you give them a clear conception of the things they are to vote for; because the deepest conviction and passion of my heart is that the common people, by which I mean all of us, are to be absolutely trusted.
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| Title | The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People |
| Authors | Woodrow Wilson, William Bayard Hale |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1913 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Sep 23, 2006 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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