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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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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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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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
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Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
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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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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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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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Talent without tact is only half talent.
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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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Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
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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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Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
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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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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. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
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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.