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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Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
—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
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
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Fame, Character
There is no bigotry like that of “free thought” run to seed.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Prejudice
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
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only certainty is oblivion.
—Horace Greeley
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: One liners
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
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. — Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but only sorrow can consecrate.
—Horace Greeley
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: The Past, Past
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Journalism
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: Honesty, Ethics, Money
Common Sense is very uncommon.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Common Sense
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
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