Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
IDA TARBELLI wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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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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