Horace Greeley quotes

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
-- Horace Greeley

#Wisdom #Character #Wings

Common sense is very uncommon.
-- Horace Greeley

#Common Sense #Common #Uncommon

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

#Results #Duty

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

#Inspirational #Life #Money

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

#Bible #Reading #Biblical

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

#Alive #Journalism

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

#Country #Men #Idlers

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Simple #Thinking #Names

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#War #Two #People

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Men #Careers #Dollars

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
-- Horace Greeley

#Men #Rights #Civil Rights

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Memories #Practice #Principles

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
-- Horace Greeley

#Vocabulary

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?
-- Horace Greeley

#Religion #Church #Trying

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

#Age #Illusion

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

#Grief #Ambition #Hands

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Spring #Adversity #Fire

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

#Progress #Ink #Newspapers

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
-- Horace Greeley

#Stupidity #No Friends #Want

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Long #Kitchen #Resources

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
-- Horace Greeley

#Men #White #Age

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Rumor #World #Nine

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

#Men #Culture #Littles

Talent without tact is only half talent.
-- Horace Greeley

#Half #Talent #Tact

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Important #Use #Mankind

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

#Crazy #Sleep #Sick

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Historical #Liberty #Noble Deeds

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

#Fire #Smoking #Fool

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

#Regret #Public Opinion #Would Be

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
-- Horace Greeley

#Empathy #Apathy #Oblivion

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
-- Horace Greeley

#Wisdom #Genuine #Dear

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

#War #Civil War #Bayonets

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

#Defeated

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
-- Horace Greeley

#Running #Free Thought #Bigotry

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Home #West #Faces

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
-- Horace Greeley

#Country #Growing Up #Men

The way we do things is to begin.
-- Horace Greeley

#Way

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Country #Growing Up #Men

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

#Men #World #West

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

#Writing #Style #Wells

You may be witty, but not satirical.
-- Horace Greeley

#Witty #May #Satirical

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Mean #Cutting #Winter

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
-- Horace Greeley

#Practice #Would Be #Pulpit

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
-- Horace Greeley

#Dogmatism #Bigotry

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

#Atheism #Vedas #Doctrine

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.
-- Horace Greeley

#Sports #Eye #Mean