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Horace Greeley Biography

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was founder and 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 unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant.

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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.

Adversity, Fire, Greenly, Purifying, Spring, Verdure

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

Free, Free Thought, Racist, Run, Running, Thought

Talent without tact is only half talent.

Half, Tact, Talent

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.

Facts, Historical, Liberty, Nationalized, Old, Oppression

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

Forcible, Plainest, Style, Wells, Writing

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

Atheism, Vedas, Doctrine, Christianity, Anticipated

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

Apostle, Ink, Newspapers, Progress

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

Country, Idlers, Men, Young

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

Alive, Journalism, Keep, Kill, Media

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

Results, Duty, Futurity, God, Belong

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

Funny, Humorous, Fire, Cigar, Fool

Common sense is very uncommon.

Common, Common Sense, Sense, Uncommon

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.

Country, Growing Up, Men, Bad, High

Money is more trouble than it is worth.

Money, Trouble, Worth

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

Bayonets, Live, Pinned, Republic, War

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.

Collapse, Dissected, Like, Nine, Rumor, World

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

Age, Marry, Men, White, White Man

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

Bible, Biblical, Groundwork, Mentally, Reading

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

Country, Grow, Growing Up, Men, West

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

Character, Fame, Take, Thing, Wings, Wisdom

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