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Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.
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Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901)

 

William McKinley

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