Ida Tarbell quotes

Ida Tarbell was a pioneering journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of her time. Born in Pennsylvania in 1857, Tarbell is best known for her groundbreaking investigative reporting on the Standard Oil Company, which eventually led to the breakup of the company. She was a key figure in the Progressive Era and her work helped shape future antitrust laws in the United States. Tarbell's diligent research and fearless reporting earned her accolades and respect in the journalism industry. Her work exposed the corrupt practices of big business and helped to bring about important reforms in American society. In addition to her work on Standard Oil, Tarbell wrote numerous articles and books on a wide range of topics, including women's rights and labor issues. Today, Ida Tarbell is remembered as a trailblazer in the field of investigative journalism and a champion of social justice. Her legacy continues to inspire journalists and activists to this day.

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

- 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

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