Railways Quotes

• Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.

  

  Andrew Dickson White
  • Control
  • Using
  • Railways

• Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Fight
  • Interests
  • Funds

• If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

  

  Michael Flanders
  • God
  • Intended
  • Railways

• As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Trees
  • Ignorant
  • Streamships

• Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • Different
  • May
  • Night

• First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world.

  

  Claude Grahame-White
  • Globe
  • Linked
  • Knit