Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeleywas 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 new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election. He crusaded against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant and lost in a landslide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 February 1811
CountryUnited States of America
Horace Greeley quotes about
important use mankind
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 happier.
running free-thought seeds
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
war bayonets republic
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
stupidity no-friends want
Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
atheism vedas doctrine
There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
trouble
Money is more trouble than it is worth.
brain idle deficiency
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
vocabulary
The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
rumor world nine
Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.
religion church trying
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. Why not try religion?
home west faces
If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.
way
The way we do things is to begin.
sports mean eye
Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.
country cities crowds
Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.