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"It is useless to deny that a tariff does benefit-or at least can benefit-special interests. True, it benefits them at the expense of everyone else. But it does benefit them. If one industry alone could get protection, which its owners and workers enjoyed the benefits of free trade in everything else they bought, that industry would benefit, even on net balance."

"Three out of every four of us, therefore, may be said to owe not only our jobs but our very lives to machines."