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Steam Engines Quotes

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Frank Chodorov
Pyramids, Steam Engines, States
"Frank Chodorov: Champion of Liberty" by Aaron Steelman, fee.org. December 1, 1996.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

Peter Singer
World, Internet, Steam Engines
"The unknown promise of internet freedom". www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.

R. G. LeTourneau
Running, Poor, Steam Engines
R. G. LeTourneau (2009). “Mover of Men and Mountains”, p.36, Moody Publishers

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Science, Steam Engines, Accounts

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

George Bernard Shaw
Civilization, Modern, Steam Engines
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4494, e-artnow

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Safety, Evil, Steam Engines

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