Horace Greeley Quotes

• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.

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• It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

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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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• I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

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• Common sense is very uncommon.

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• Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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

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

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• There is no bigotry like that of “free thought” run to seed.

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• Ease up, the play is over.

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• Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

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

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• Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

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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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• The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, – truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

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

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

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Horace Greeley (18)

Birth:	3rd February, 1811
Death:	29th November, 1872
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Politician

About

Horace Greeley was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, USA. He was founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. He served briefly as a congressman from New York. He was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant.

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