Horace Greeley
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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, New York Tribune, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer and a politician.
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- The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
- The American Conflict, A History of the Great Rebellion (1864).
- The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.
- Acceptance of Liberal Republican nomination as President (May 29, 1872).
- 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.
- Greeley on Lincoln, ed. Joel Benton, pp. 78–79 (1893).
- If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.
- New Yorker, Aug. 25, 1838; often paraphrased as "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country"
- Sometimes misattributed to John L. Soule
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- There aren't half enough of them going there as it is.
- Reply to a missionary who asked Greeley for a subscription to "help keep people from going to hell".
- Quoted by Albert Jay Nock, Grab-bag Education, The Book of Journeyman (1930).
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- A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
- Letter to Dr. Rufus Wilmot Griswold.
- I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
- If Uncle Sam should ever sell that tract for one cent per acre, he will swindle the purchaser outrageously.
- About land in Utah