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
memories practice finals
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.
practice would-be pulpit
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
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
country grow toward
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country (Hints toward Reforms)
american-editor grow
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.
rumor world nine
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.