Horace Greeley Quotes
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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.
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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.
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A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
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No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
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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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There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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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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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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Money is more trouble than it is worth.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
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Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
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The Republic needed 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.
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
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I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
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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.
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The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
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Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
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Ease up, the play is over.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
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Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
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There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.