
As quoted in Art of Communicating Ideas (1952) by William Joseph Grace, p. 389
Disputed
A collection of quotes on the topic of railroad, use, likeness, world.
As quoted in Art of Communicating Ideas (1952) by William Joseph Grace, p. 389
Disputed
“The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.”
Letter to Joseph Sandars (December 1824)
Source: Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943), p. 32
But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not content myself with consulting authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
John Dixon, quoted by Samuel Smiles, Life of George Stephenson (1875)
Gene, on the war activities around Devon.
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 89
The Making of America (1986)
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)
"Inside the Suit, a Man!," The New York Times (1986-11-05)
Beside You
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)
Source: Structure of American economy, 1919-1929, 1941, p. 141: as cited in: Frits Bos, " Three centuries of macro-economic statistics http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35391/1/Three_centuries_macroeconomic_statistics.pdf." (2011).
Wir haben unsere wichtigsten Volksgüter, die Eisenbahnen und die Banken, den Fremdlingen überlassen, die schon vor 2000 Jahren den Tempel zu einem Wucherhaus gemacht haben. Damals hatte schon einer den Mut besessen, mit einer Peitsche dieses Gesindel auszutreiben! Wenn heute ein Nationalsozialist mit einer solchen Tempelpeitsche angetroffen wird, wird er ins Gefängnis geworfen.
05/01/1925, speech in the Bavarian regional parliament; debate about the budget of the ministry of justice ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
Letter to his sister Margaret on Sir Robert Peel's budget (1842), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), pp. 72-73.
1840s
1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)
“The railroad is a great public institution, and I was never an enemy of public institutions. p. 63”
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 15. Concerning Gas in Politics
Source: The Visible Hand (1977), p. 87.
I didn't sell any more bonds, but eh... they didn't allow me to appear anymore.
Recounting a War Bonds tour in his Carnegie Hall appearance (6 May 1972)
Git-R-Done (album)
Yeast: A Problem http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10364/10364-h/10364-h.htm (1848), ch. 5.
1860s, 1864, Letter to James Guthrie (August 1864)
Quote, 1914, in 'Functions of Painting by Fernand Leger; p. 11
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1910's, Contemporary Achievements in Painting, 1914
1920s, The Reign of Law (1925)
The Russian Revolution (1918)
Source: Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856), p. 33-34: First two paragraphs
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)
Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 7, Automation and Such, p. 186.
The Cornerstone Speech (1861)
George Roussos as quoted by George Roussos in Gruenwald, Mark (April 1983). "George Roussos". Comics Interview (2) (Fictioneer Books). pp. 45–51.
About
An Appeal to the Young (1880)
David Lance Goines, 1993, The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960's, Ten Speed Press, p. 49.
Quoted in Clarence P. Dresser, "Vanderbilt in the West" New York Times (9 October 1882). Dresser's account has Vanderbilt denying that he ran a particular passenger express service for the public benefit, but rather to drive down prices of a competing Pennsylvania Railroad service. By some accounts Dresser fabricated the interview except for the first sentence, which Vanderbilt said in refusing to give an interview. See "Reporter C. P. Dresser Dead", New York Times (25 April 1891).
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Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter IX, The Price, p. 106
"Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg," Tendencies in Modern American Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=UgZaAAAAMAAJ (1917).
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (1931), performed as part of the play New Americana (1932) - Charlie Palloy version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsJGagKWrds - Bing Crosby version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU - Tom Waits version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVE72Ae82Tw
Henry R. Towne, in: Frank Barkley Copley, Frederick W. Taylor, father of scientific management https://archive.org/stream/frederickwtaylor01copl, 1923. p. xii.
Source: Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856), p. 44; Cited in Vose (1857, p. 454), and Pickenpaugh (1998, p. 18)
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Right of Secession Is Not the Right of Revolution
Max Weber, General Economic History, trans. by Frank Knight, 1961. p 265
Source: Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856), p. 49: Cited in: "Railway Engineering in the United States" in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858. p. 651-2
Nature's Eternal Religion (1973)
Nature's Eternal Religion (1973)
Quoted in "The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Final Gamble" - by Patrick Delaforce - History - 2004
I am convinced, Herr Hauptmann, [Eichmann is referring to his interrogator, Avner Less] I know it sounds odd coming from me, but I'm convinced that if it had been up to Müller it wouldn't have happened.
Source: Eichmann Interrogated (1983), p. 84.
“What would Lincoln have been without the Civil War? Just another railroad lawyer!”
JFK to Gore Vidal, quoted in David Swanson's Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (2011).
Attributed
Something Like That
Song lyrics, A Place in the Sun (1999)
Source: Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856), p. 59. Cited in: Vose (1857: p. 413)
Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 5 ; About his first job at the , where a year later Sloan would take control.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 13, On Municipal Ownership
Source: Living systems, 1978, p. 16; As cited in: Sven Rasegård (2002) Man and Science: A Web of Systems and Social Conventions. p. 29
Source: Artists talks 1969 – 1977, p. 27
The Chorus of the song. The only part that is actually sung in the song. At the end of the performance, after the first line is sung, Arlo will quickly add in the phrase "Excepting Alice."
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
The Cornerstone Speech (1861)
“English: "A [railroad] branch that goes on strike is a branch that closes down."”
"Ramal que para, ramal que cierra."
Ramal que cierra, pueblo que muere http://edant.clarin.com/diario/1997/05/25/i-01602e.htm.
Source: The Passionate Life (1983), p. 135
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
As quoted in Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 (1919), by E.G. Renesch, Chicago
“…the true route for a successful railroad.”
Circa 1870, as attributed in Preacher, Entrepreneur: Rev. D.J. Waller Sr. by William M. Ballie (2011)
As quoted in Women's Words : The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women (1996) by Mary Biggs, p. 2
Quote from Turner's letter to Mr. Hawkesworth, 24 December, 1849; as quoted in The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume II, George Walter Thornbury; Hurst and Blackett Publishers, London, 1862, pp. 90-91
1821 - 1851
Transcript from Seale's conspiracy case as part of the Chicago 8 (October 1968)
"The way ahead" Economist.com http://www.economist.com/ (November 2001)
1990s and later
Conclusion, p. 401.
The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)
Brand New Day
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)
Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Labor and Education
Jay Gould : A Character Sketch (1893)
"What We Owe Our Parasites", speech (June 1968); Free Speech magazine (October and November 1995)
1960s
So things came every week and I consumed them...
Response to the question: Did you outstrip the offerings of the school, say in the sciences and mathematics?
An Interview with Douglas T. Ross (1984)
Original Italian text:
Noi canteremo le grandi folle agitate dal lavoro, dal piacere o dalla sommossa: canteremo le maree multicolori e polifoniche delle rivoluzioni nelle capitali moderne; canteremo il vibrante fervore notturno degli arsenali e dei cantieri incendiati da violente lune elettriche; le stazioni ingorde, divoratrici di serpi che fumano; le officine appese alle nuvole pei contorti fili dei loro fumi; i ponti simili a ginnasti giganti che scavalcano i fiumi, balenanti al sole con un luccichio di coltelli; i piroscafi avventurosi che fiutano l'orizzonte, le locomotive dall'ampio petto, che scalpitano sulle rotaie, come enormi cavalli d'acciaio imbrigliati di tubi, e il volo scivolante degli aereoplani, la cui elica garrisce al vento come una bandiera e sembra applaudire come una folla entusiasta.
Source: 1900's, The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism' 1909, p. 52 : Last bullet-item in THE MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM
1900's, Let's Murder the Moonlight!' (1909)
Source: Poggi, Christine, and Laura Wittman, eds. Futurism: An Anthology. Yale University Press, 2009. p. 54: Lead paragraph
1890s, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Context: If evils will result from the commingling of the two races upon public highways established for the benefit of all, they will be infinitely less than those that will surely come from state legislation regulating the enjoyment of civil rights upon the basis of race. We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow-citizens, our equals before the law. The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done.
Progress and Poverty (1879)
Context: But there is another form of monopoly, far more general and far more insidious. The accumulation of large amounts of capital under consolidated control creates a new kind of power—essentially different from the power of increase. Increase is constructive in its nature. Power from accumulation is destructive. It is often exercised with reckless disregard, not only to industry but to the personal rights of individuals. A railroad approaches a small town as a highwayman approaches his victim. “Agree to our terms or we will bypass your town” is as effective a threat as “your money or your life.” As robbers unite to plunder and divide the spoils, the trunk lines of railroads unite to raise rates and pool their earnings. The public is then forced to pay the cost of the whole maneuver, as the vanquished are forced to pay the cost of their own enslavement by a conquering army.