“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.”
Horace Greeley“The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.”
Horace Greeley“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.”
Horace Greeley“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 than the old system of chattel slavery.”
Horace Greeley“The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
Horace Greeley“I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
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.”
Horace Greeley“Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion