Donald Cargill Quotes

“Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.”

“And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.”

“Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.”

“Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!— Russ Cargill”

“A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country”

“It takes brains not to make money,” Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem’s signature. “Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.”

“Monsters are very real. But they're not just creatures. Monsters are everywhere. They're people. They're nightmares...They are the things that we harbor within ourselves. If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn't walked once within the soul of a man.”

“Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.”

“It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.”

“The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.”