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
progress ink newspapers
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
country cities crowds
Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
running free-thought seeds
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
trouble
Money is more trouble than it is worth.
crazy sleep sick
I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
brain idle deficiency
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
country evil fearless
Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.
regret public-opinion would-be
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
play ease
Ease up, the play is over.
home west faces
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.
country growing-up men
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.
important use mankind
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.
religion church trying
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?
way
The way we do things is to begin.