Quotes by Horace Greeley

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

“The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”

“While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to concealthe ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we havenationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,is not less cruel th...”

“Common sense is very uncommon.”

“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 hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.”

“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.”

“Go West young man and grow up with the country.”

“Go West young man and grow up with the country.”

“If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.”

“One of the most happiest and most convincing political arguments ever made in this City... No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New-York audience.”

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

“My leading idea was the establishment of a journal removed alike from servile partisanship on the one hand and from gagged, mincing neutrality on the other.”

“I do not intrude to tell you--for you must know already--that a great proportion of those who triumphed in you election, and of all who desire the unqualified suppression of the Rebellion now desol...”

“I. We require of you, as the first servant of the Republic, charged especially and preeminently with this duty, that you EXECUTE THE LAWS. Most emphatically do we demand that such laws as have been...”

“II. We think you are strangely and disastrously remiss in the discharge of your official and imperative duty with regard to the emancipating provisions of the new Confiscation Act. Those provisions...”

“III. We think you are unduly influenced by the counsels, the representations, the menaces, of certain fossil politicians hailing from the Border Slave States. Knowing well that the heartily, uncond...”

“IV. We think timid counsels in such a crisis calculated to prove perilous, and probably disastrous. It is the duty of a Government so wantonly, wickedly assailed by Rebellion as ours has been to op...”

“V. We complain that the Union cause has suffered, and is now suffering immensely, from mistaken deference to Rebel Slavery. Had you, Sir, in your Inaugural Address, unmistakably given notice that, ...”