21 Horace Greeley Quotes

Horace Greeley quotes

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

2. The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.

3. 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.

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

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

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6. If Uncle Sam should ever sell that tract for one cent per acre, he will swindle the purchaser outrageously.

7. Go west, young man, and grow up with the country.

1. 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.

2. Common sense is very uncommon.

3. Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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

5. 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.

6. 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?

7. You may be witty, but not satirical.

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

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

10. Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

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

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

13. Talent without tact is only half talent.

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