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
country growing-up men
Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
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.
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.
men earning-it careers
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
men rights white-man
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.
men rights inferiors
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
men riches culture
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
country men imbeciles
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
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.
adversity ashes came fires life national passed republic springs work
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)