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Famous Horace Greeley Quotes
“A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.”
“There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.”
“Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.”
“Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.”
“The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.”
“Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.”
“Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.”
Source: The Autobiography of Horace Greeley: Or, Recollections of a Busy Life: to which are Added Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
Source: Greeley on Lincoln: With Mr. Greeley's Letters to Charles A. Dana and a Lady Friend; to which are Added Reminiscences of Horace Greeley
“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.”
“A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."”
“Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.”
“We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.”
“There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.”
“Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.”
Source: An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859