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“We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.”

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“You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.”

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Book:Business, Big and Small, Built America: Statement Before the Subcommittee on the Study of Monopoly Power of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., April 26-28, 1950
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