We used only the best material and enough of it, making our own iron and later our own steel.

We were our own severest inspectors, and would build a safe structure or none at all.

When asked to build a bridge which we knew to be of insufficient strength or of unscientific design, we resolutely declined.

Any piece of work bearing the stamp of the Keystone Bridge Works (and there are few States in the Union where such are not to be found) we were prepared to underwrite.

We were as proud of our bridges as Carlyle was of the bridge his father built across the Annan.