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.
IDA TARBELLNow, 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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