Horace Greeley (1811 – 1872)
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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If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.
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.
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
There aren't half enough of them going there as it is.
If Uncle Sam should ever sell that tract for one cent per acre, he will swindle the purchaser outrageously.
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