To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
IDA TARBELLLife is but a collection of habits.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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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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