we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELLSpeculation 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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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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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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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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