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Letter "J" » John Moody Quotes
«It had opened up millions of acres to cultivation, given homesteads to millions of people, many of whom were immigrants from Europe, developed mineral lands of incalculable value, created several new great States, and made the American nation a unified whole.»
Author: John Moody
«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.»
Author: John Moody
«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.»
Author: John Moody
«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.»
Author: John Moody
«When these facts became public, the capital stock of the Baltimore and Ohio, which for generations had been looked upon as one of the most secure of railroad investments, dropped to almost nothing, and the most strenuous financial efforts were required to keep the company out of bankruptcy.»
Author: John Moody
«Perhaps more than any other one person, Cassatt foresaw the approach of the day when New York City as a commercial center would outstrip both in density of population and in amount of wealth all the other cities of the world.»
Author: John Moody
«The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.»
Author: John Moody
«The Erie Railroad control was always nominally for sale, and, as the annual election approached, a majority of stockholders stood ready to sell their votes to the highest bidder.»
Author: John Moody
«The railroad, they said, was a natural monopoly; no private citizen could hope ever to own one; it was thus a kind of monster which, if encouraged, would override all popular rights.»
Author: John Moody
«Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.»
Author: John Moody
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