It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with…

- Oliver Evans

A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same …

- Oliver Evans

The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles…

- Oliver Evans

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

- Oliver Evans