John Moody Quotes

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

Without the Chinese, it would have been impossible to complete the Western portion of this great National Highway. [The Transcontinental Railroad]

It was only through the Government's help that anything this gargantuan in size could be accomplished, much as landing on the Moon. It was not rugged individualists who built the railroad, it was rugged corporations who formed and financed themselves as entities. It was the rugged federal government that came up with the federal loans, and the land grants, that enabled it to be built. Amid all the romance of building the railroad we tend to forget that it was one of the major industrial enterprises of its age.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

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.

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.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

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.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

When we consider the vast extent of territory within the United States, ... we cannot fail to entertain the high sense of advantage to be derived from the facility which may be afforded in the intercourse between them by means of good roads and canals.

A transcontinental railroad will not be built in my lifetime, or my children’s lifetime, or their children’s lifetime.

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

American history is … best understood as a millenarian movement.

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

One answer to transportation infrastructure funding is public-private partnerships.

Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world.

As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.

America in the 1800s isn't quite the historical mystery hotbed as the same period in the country it bested in the War of Independence, but its unique spectacle of rapid social change and the lingering influence of its literary voices act in a parallel manner upon crime fiction chroniclers devoted to this side of the Atlantic.

From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed light on the way modern Britain has developed.

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.