One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms..

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 c….

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the sure….

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 de….

When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives….

You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue….

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 ….

In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy,….

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 slende….

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!.

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….

Life is but a collection of habits..

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures..

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it..

Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate….

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world..

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence busines….

There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has syste….

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible..

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly ….

[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….