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Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector. -- John Gates
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. -- Paul Samuelson
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. -- Lee Iacocca
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico. -- Anthony Quinn
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. -- Warren Rudman
The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. -- Karel Capek
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. -- Henry David Thoreau
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. -- Eleanor Robson Belmont
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. -- Mark Twain
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. -- Harry S. Truman
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress. -- Henry David Thoreau
Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders. -- Carl Sandburg
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. -- Theodore Roosevelt
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. -- Harriet Tubman
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. -- Mother Jones
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God. -- Johnny Cash
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition. -- Ambrose Bierce
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. -- George Stephenson
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space. -- Peter Diamandis
Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators. -- Peter Diamandis
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient. -- Clyde Tombaugh
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads. -- John Moody
I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track. -- Marc Singer
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story. -- Felix Dennis
Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels. -- Lisa Gansky
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. -- John Moody
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset. -- Andrew Young
I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town. -- Jason Molina
Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials. -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. -- Mark Cuban
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice. -- Julia Ward Howe
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation. -- Anthony Stafford Beer
Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount? -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at launch of the National Millennium Trails Program, 1999) -- Hillary Clinton
Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue. -- Jesse Jackson
The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same. -- William Henry Vanderbilt

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