The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

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

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world – a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.

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.

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 admired. And this is logical. Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

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.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else – men, guns, ammunition.

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

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 and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.