Ida Tarbell said this quote

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

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