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
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Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
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We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
age illusion
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
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The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
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You may be witty, but not satirical.
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Talent without tact is only half talent.
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Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
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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.
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
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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.
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Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
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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.