Horace Greeley Quotes
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
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A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
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Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.
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While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.
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Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
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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.
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Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
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Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
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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.
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Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
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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.
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We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
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Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
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Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
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Talent without tact is only half talent.
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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.
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The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
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If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
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The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
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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.
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A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."