Charles Francis Adams, "The Era of Change," in Charles F. Adams and Henry Adams, Chapters of Erie and Other Essays (Boston: James Osgood, 1871; reprint, New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1967), 365.
Joseph Nimmo Jr., Railroad Federations and the Relation of the Railroads to Commerce . . . (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1885), 8.
"Report of the Auditor of Railroad Accounts," 46th Cong., 2d sess., 1911, H. Ex. Doc. 1, 17-18.
Quote, Adams to Moorfield Storey, Feb. 2, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 27, ser. 2, r. 23;
for policies during the Civil War, Heather Cox Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1997), 170-72, 175, 178-80.
Thomas McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, 30 (Sept. 1970): 604, 625.