Horace Greeley Quotes
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Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
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The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
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Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
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Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
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Common sense is very uncommon.
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If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
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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.
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The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
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Talent without tact is only half talent.
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Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
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Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
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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.
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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.
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We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.
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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?
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A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
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Money is more trouble than it is worth.
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Ease up, the play is over.
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If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
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Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
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Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
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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.
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There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
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