The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound.

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

Indeed, this crisis was also spurred by the abandonment of professional ideals in the pursuit of profit that made managed care necessary in the first place.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive, but that [ the day my daughter was born] was one that's still with me.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.