The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.

We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.

I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.

Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.

May you see the light through the darkness, wisdom through the pain and strength through the suffering.

Make requests, not demands. "Please" kill that zombie, honey, I'm out of bullets.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ

I wanna give great health care at a much lower cost than Obamacare.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

Think of destiny more like potentiality because of an element called - free will.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.