For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
The issue is not about raising taxes. The issue is, how do we allocate the wealth that we have? We spend trillions of dollars on a military industrial complex. The United States accounts for 38% of all the military armaments produced in the world. 38%. This is a huge amount of money. People want and need services. They want roads, they want healthcare.
Easy roads make sleepy travellers.
We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.
I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.
You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!
If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself.
Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache
I'm kinda tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity. Then I got bored and went out and painted passing lines on curved roads.
It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.
There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.
All roads lead to my dogs, don't they?
The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
In America, we have an infrastructure that's so bad, our roads, our highways, our schools, our tunnels, our bridges. Look at our bridges. Half of them have reports that they are in serious danger.