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.
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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[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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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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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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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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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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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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