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

- Ida Tarbell

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,…

- Ida Tarbell

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

- Ida Tarbell

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…

- Ida Tarbell

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

- Ida Tarbell

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 …

- Ida Tarbell

[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…

- Ida Tarbell

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…

- Ida Tarbell

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

- Ida Tarbell