The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
IDA TARBELLThere is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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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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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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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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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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