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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.

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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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