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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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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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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."
People
"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
Geography
"The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific."
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"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."
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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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"While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points."
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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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"With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history."
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"The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress."
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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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