Quotes by Horace Greeley

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

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

“Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.”

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

“Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while youre at it.”

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

“The darkest day in a mans career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it”

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

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

“The darkest hour in any mans life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it”

“A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man”

“The Republic need 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”

“Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine”

“Go West, young man, and grow up with the country (Hints toward Reforms)”

“Go West, restaurant company.”

“Ease up, the play is over.”

“We wanted to win and so did they, ... The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.”

“Go west, young man.”

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

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