There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
IDA TARBELLA more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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