Quotes About Homestead Act

#1. Homestead" term was first used in USA in the Homestead Act in 1862 and before. In Saharan Africa, especially in nations which were controlled by the British, a homestead is the single extended family's household compound.

Carrie Arboony

#2. Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.

Andrew Johnson

#4. Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land ... We need an industrial Homestead Act.

Ronald Reagan

#5. In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

Peter Agre

#6. I always figured nerves were for Jane Austen characters and helium-voiced girls who never buy their round; I would no more have turned shaky in a crisis than I would have carried smelling salts around in my reticule.

Tana French

#7. They looked like frogs who'd been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs.

Lorrie Moore

#8. Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#9. A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

Samuel Adams

#10. I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

Anton Chekhov