Civil war Quote by John Moody

Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they…

— John Moody

Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed rail line…

— Michelle Malkin

The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their…

— William Henry Vanderbilt

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

— John Gates

The Underground Railroad was the first integrated civil rights movement. And it's a great example of when we work together, what we can go…

— Misha Green

The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of us know…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

— Thabo Mbeki

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I…

— Andrew Young

The federal government shouldn't be drawing lines on a map in terms of what transit infrastructure are needed; we should be there to be…

— Justin Trudeau

The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

During the Civil War, the United States government had organized new territories in the West at a cracking pace, both to keep the Confederacy…

— Heather Cox Richardson