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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotations by Horace Greeley (American Elected Rep)

Inspirational Quotations by Horace Greeley (American Elected Rep)

Horace Greeley (1811–72) was editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the candidate of the Democratic and Liberal Republican parties in the 1872 presidential election. He was defeated by President Ulysses S. Grant, and died before the casting of the electoral vote.

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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
—Horace Greeley

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
—Horace Greeley

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Opinion

The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Ethics, Money, Honesty

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: The Past, Past

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Character, Fame

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: One liners

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
—Horace Greeley

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only certainty is oblivion.
—Horace Greeley

Duty and today are ours, results and futurity belong to God.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Present

Authorship is a royal priesthood; but woe to him who rashly lays unhallowed hands on the ark or altar, professing a zeal for the welfare of the race, only to secure his own selfish ends.
—Horace Greeley

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. — Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but only sorrow can consecrate.
—Horace Greeley

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be so long as the kitchen and the needle are subtsantially their only resources.
—Horace Greeley

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Journalism

Common Sense is very uncommon.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Common Sense

There is no bigotry like that of “free thought” run to seed.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Prejudice

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground work of human freedom.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Liberty

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