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Robert Moses Quotes

1888–1981 United States

Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American public official who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island.

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If the end doesn't justify the means, what does?

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Moses (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.