Horace Greeley Quotes

A cigar has " ... a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

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.

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.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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

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.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

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

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

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

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.

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

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

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.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

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.

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.

Money is more trouble than it is worth.

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.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Ease up, the play is over.

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

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.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

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

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

Talent without tact is only half talent.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.

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.

Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The way we do things is to begin.