Horace Greeley Quotes

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

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  Wisdom, Character, Wings

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• It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

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  Bible, Reading, Biblical

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• Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

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  Country, Men, Idlers

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• We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

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  War, Two, People

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• The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

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  Men, Rights, Feet

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• Common sense is very uncommon.

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  Common Sense, Common, Uncommon

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

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  Wisdom, Cheer, Character

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• While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

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  Historical, Liberty, Bankers

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• The way we do things is to begin.

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  Way

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• Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

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  Practice, Would Be, Pulpit

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• 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.

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  Men, Rights, White Man

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• 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.

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  Country, Growing Up, Men

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• 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.

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  Country, Evil, Fearless

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• Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

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  Long, Alive, Journalism

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• The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

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  Vocabulary

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• I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

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  Regret, Public Opinion, Would Be

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• The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

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  Age, Illusion

  The American Conflict ch. 1 (1864 - 1866)

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• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

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  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

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  Dogmatism, Bigotry

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• The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

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  Writing, Style, Wells

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• Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

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  Country, Growing Up, Men

  Horace Greeley (1999). “An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press

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• Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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  Empathy, Apathy, Oblivion

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• There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

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  Atheism, Vedas, Doctrine

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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.

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  Rumor, World, Nine

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