Quote #5
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Horace Greeley
- A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
- If Uncle Sam should ever sell that tract for one cent per acre, he will swindle the purchaser outrageously.
- The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the v…
- Go west, young man, and grow up with the country.
- The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.
- The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.