Homestead Act Quotes
- There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage… — Barack Obama
- I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years,… — Rutherford B. Hayes
- The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers,… — Harry S. Truman
- One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the… — John F. Kennedy
- I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan
- 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
- 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… — Lyndon B. Johnson