Under the authority of an act of Congress to revive the grade of lieutenant-general in the United States Army, approved February 29, 1864, Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, United States Army, is assigned to the command of the armies of…

I have made the order of which a copy is herewith, and caused the same to be filed in the Department of the Interior.

I deem it proper to add that on the 17th day of November last an Executive order was made upon this subject and delivered to the vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.

Since then the company has represented to me that upon actual surveys made it has determined upon the precise point of departure of their said branch road from the Missouri River.

it is directed that the order aforesaid may be carried into effect

I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do, upon the application of the said company designate and establish such first above-named point on the western boundary of the State of Iowa east of and opposite to the east line of…

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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Every man is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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