Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house,… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“In the early days of the country, before we had railroads, telegraphs and steamboats—in a word, rapid transit of any sort—the States… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“We have all heard a great deal about the opportunities of bygone years. We envy the men who discovered and settled the… — F.C. Minaker Copy Share Image
Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what… — Charles Frederick Carter Copy Share Image
If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it… — Carl Yastrzemski Copy Share Image
When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes,… — Lucinda Franks Copy Share Image
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation,… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
“Railroads, in turn, were revolutionary in their social consequences. The concentrations of the world's populations along coasts and near rivers was reduced,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
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