Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeleywas editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election. He crusaded against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant and lost in a landslide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 February 1811
CountryUnited States of America
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
difference game kid win
We wanted to win and so did they, ... The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.
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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
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Go West, young man, and grow up with the country (Hints toward Reforms)
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Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
country growing-up men
Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
long kitchen resources
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.
stupidity no-friends want
Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
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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.
vocabulary
The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
sports mean eye
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.
men west world
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
men white-man age
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.