Top 58 Quotes & Sayings by Horace Greeley
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Common sense is very uncommon.
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Ease up, the play is over.
Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
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.
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.
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
Talent without tact is only half talent.
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.
There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
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.
The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
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.
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
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.
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.
I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
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.
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
You may be witty, but not satirical.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
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.
Money is more trouble than it is worth.
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.
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
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.
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.
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
The way we do things is to begin.
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.
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.
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.
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.
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