Horace Greeley Quotes

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Horace Greeley

• Night
• Poverty
• Cutting
• Winter
• Morality

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• Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Cutting