Ida Tarbell quotes

Ida Tarbell was an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era. Her exposé of the Standard Oil Company set new standards for investigative reporting and helped bring about reforms in business practices. She became a powerful advocate for journalistic integrity and social justice. Here are 5 of her quotes:

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.

Ida Tarbell

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ida Tarbell

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

Ida Tarbell

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.

Ida Tarbell