Panama Canal Quotes

• I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Doe, Goes On

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 24 Mar. 1911

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• The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

  Jessica Savitch

  Important Events, Months, Debate

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Peace, War, Squares

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• A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Pride, Men, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography”, p.495, Open Road Media

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• My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

  William Howard Taft

  West, Revolution, United States

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2004). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Jobs, Colorado River, Rivers

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• The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

  Ronald Ross

  Science, Microscopes, Canals

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• Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.

  Stephen Colbert

  Want, Canals, Built

  Stephen Colbert's address at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Hilton Washington hotel, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2006.

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• I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the right place and hopefully I'll have the right clothes on. I think what we're going to do is bring the boat through the Panama Canal. My husband has always wanted to do that. So I think we'll do that and have the boat in Florida for the winter.

  Florence Henderson

  Husband, Winter, Thinking

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