"It's not our business to figure on all the calamities that may occur in the next fifty years, or the next ten, or the next five.

We build the canal, then it's up to the farmers to keep it in shape after we turn it over to them.

If anything happens, that's their lookout and the lookout of the engineer in charge." The two had come to a halt just out of earshot of the runabout.

Bryant could discover on the speaker's face no other expression than a fixed intent to maintain his view.
"Leaving out the injustice of such a course----" "Injustice, nothing!" the New Yorker derided.

"This is cold business.
The project must be built as cheaply as possible in order to give the investors the largest return.