The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
IDA TARBELLIt’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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.
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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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