Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Quotes

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

Industrial forces set in motion by steam and electricity have materially changed the structure of our civilization.

The Chinese and the Americans are great peoples. The Americans are optimistic, full of enterprising drive, down to earth, and innovative. In just over 200 years, they have turned the United States into the most developed country in the world, and made phenomenal achievements in economic development and science and technology.

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

The malignity and inhumanity of the Greek military authorities are undisguised.

A completely industrialized society is of no consequence to me.

The greatness of the Erie Canal is the American equal only of its equality and liberty.

Stalin could occasionally make Hitler look like a Boy Scout.

My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. People had such a boundless sense of optimism; They felt they could do anything they wanted to do, and they went out and tried to do it.

Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice.

Hong Kong never had prestige. It's gone from fishing village to where it is today.

All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British capitalism developed, precisely in the age called the Industrial Revolution in England, in the years from 1760 to 1830, precisely in those years the population of England doubled.

The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.

Industrialization came to England but has since left.