To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
IDA TARBELLA popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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 economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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