Horace Greeley

Common sense is very uncommon.

— Horace Greeley

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

— Horace Greeley

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

— Horace Greeley

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels…

— Horace Greeley

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales,…

— Horace Greeley

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

— Horace Greeley

You may be witty, but not satirical.

— Horace Greeley

The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and…

— Horace Greeley

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

— Horace Greeley

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

— Horace Greeley

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

— Horace Greeley

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

— Horace Greeley

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

— Horace Greeley

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

— Horace Greeley

Talent without tact is only half talent.

— Horace Greeley

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

— Horace Greeley

“He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.”

— Horace Greeley

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

— Horace Greeley

We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think…

— Horace Greeley

Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The…

— Horace Greeley

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

— Horace Greeley

While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized…

— Horace Greeley

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

— Horace Greeley

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

— Horace Greeley

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

— Horace Greeley