#territory

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

#abraham lincoln #act #bill #half #homestead

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#challenged #disappointed #eye #fun #growing

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#healthy #his #how #illness #loves

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#best #best way #find #forget #fresh

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#ever #find #go #going #keep

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#could #country #governor #great #indians

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#grandeur #make #nation #size #territory

I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory. ↗

— Sean Booth

#although #america #being #cities #completely

There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places. ↗

— Sean Booth

#asia #basically #different #different places #europe

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#attention #directed #early #exploring #government