Horace Greeley Quotations

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

We wanted to win and so did they, ... The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.

The Republic need 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

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

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.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

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.

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

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.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

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.

Money is more trouble than it is worth.

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

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.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

Ease up, the play is over.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The way we do things is to begin.

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

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.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Talent without tact is only half talent.

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

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.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

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.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

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.

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.

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

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.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

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.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

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.

Common sense is very uncommon.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country (Hints toward Reforms)

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.