Railroad Quote by Howard Zinn

“There were railroads in the wilderness now; people who used to go overland by carriage or horseback to the River landings for the Memphis…

— William Faulkner

“Benoit began life in the year 1889, with the coming of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. There was never any plan to run…

— Adrienne Berard

“The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

— Will Rogers

“As far as they were concerned, if the U.S. government did not extinguish its debt, there would always be public creditors. Those creditors, who…

— Kevin R.C. Gutzman

“As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the…

— Alexandre Dumas

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to…

— Will Rogers

“One of the most ambitious men to exploit the timber trade was Hugh F. McDanield, a railroad builder and tie contractor who had come…

— Denele Pitts Campbell

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

— James Brown

“At West Virginia University, the Charles Koch Foundation’s donation of $965,000 to create the Center for Free Enterprise came with some strings attached. The…

— Jane Mayer

“We have all heard a great deal about the opportunities of bygone years. We envy the men who discovered and settled the West. We…

— F.C. Minaker

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for…

— Neil Abercrombie