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John Moody

"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."

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"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."

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"Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished."

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"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

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"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."

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"All government, of course, is against liberty."

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"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."

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"The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack."

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"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."

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"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

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"The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium."
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"The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned."
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