Beyond a doubt this feeling is spreading. Beyond a doubt it will lead to some peaceful effort to regulate and control the great corporations in their methods. And if that fails, what then? Probably an effort to make the concentration of large wealth in a few hands more difficult if not impossible. And if that fails, what then? Who knows? But I think it is not likely to be anything of the nature of communism.
The ruling passion of America is not equality, but personal freedom for every man to exercise his will-power under a system of self-reliance and fair play.
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COMMON ORDER AND SOCIAL COÖPERATION