Horace Greeley Quotes
An American editor of a leading newspaper, New York Tribune, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer and a politician.
(1811 - 1872)
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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
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Authorship is a royal priesthood; but woe to him who rashly lays unhallowed hands on the ark or altar, professing a zeal for the welfare of the race, only to secure his own selfish ends.
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Duty and today are ours, results and futurity belong to God.
[Present]
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Ease up, the play is over.
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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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Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. - Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but only sorrow can consecrate.
[Grief]
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
[Opinion]
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground work of human freedom.
[Liberty]
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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
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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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Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
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Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
[Stupidiity]
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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.
[Journalism]
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The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.
[Money]
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
[The Past]
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There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
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