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
american-editor grow
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
adversity ashes came fires life national passed republic springs work
The Republic need 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
common-sense common uncommon
Common sense is very uncommon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
dogmatism bigotry
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
memories practice finals
If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.
alive journalism
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
empathy apathy oblivion
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
cigarette-smoke fishing fire
A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
long alive journalism
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
simple thinking names
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 like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.