Quotes
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them. 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. A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man. I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. If Uncle Sam should ever sell that tract for one cent per acre, he will swindle the purchaser outrageously. Go west, young man, and grow up with the country.horace greeley
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