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
practice would-be pulpit
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
dogmatism bigotry
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
men rights inferiors
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
men riches culture
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
war two people
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 inevitable.
inspirational life money
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
country men imbeciles
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
historical liberty noble
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
common-sense common uncommon
Common sense is very uncommon.
bible reading biblical
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
wisdom character wings
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
country grow toward
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country (Hints toward Reforms)
men west world
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West