George W. Merck quotes:

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical course to pursue, namely, to study the possibilities of such warfare from every angle ...

The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.

We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been,