Top 50 Horace Greeley Quotes
#1. Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
#2. The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
#3. If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
#4. 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.
#5. 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.
#6. Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
#7. Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
#8. Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
#9. Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
#10. Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
#11. Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
#12. Common sense is very uncommon.
#13. 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?
#14. Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
#15. You may be witty, but not satirical.
#16. The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
#17. Money is more trouble than it is worth.
#18. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
#19. There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.
#20. 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.
#21. A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
#22. Talent without tact is only half talent.
#23. Ease up, the play is over.
#24. We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
#25. I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
#26. 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.
#27. 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.
#28. I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
#29. Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
#30. 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.
#31. Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
#32. The way we do things is to begin.
#33. The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
#34. A cigar has " ... a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
#35. Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.
#36. 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.
#37. Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
#38. 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.
#39. There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
#40. Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
#41. 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.
#42. He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.
#43. Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
#44. Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
#45. 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.
#46. I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
#47. 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.
#48. Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
#49. 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.
#50. The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
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