Horace Greeley Quotes

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• The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning…
• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
• I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
• Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
• We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is…
• Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
• Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
• We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
• There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
• Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
• Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
• The way we do things is to begin.
• Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
• If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
• Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable.…
• If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your…
• The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus…
• We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name…
• Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc.…
• The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

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