The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
IDA TARBELLThe first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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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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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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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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