Horace Greeley Quotes

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

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

Common sense is very uncommon.

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

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.

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

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

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.

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.

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.