"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 a..."
"I have made the order of which a copy is herewith, and caused the same to be filed in the Department of the Interior."
"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."
"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."
"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 ..."
"Power can be very seductive, and it often corrupts those who wield it."
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
"Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed."
"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody."
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
