Horace Greeley Quotes

    If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.
    Horace Greeley
    Business
    The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
    Horace Greeley
    History
    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.
    Horace Greeley
    Business
    The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.
    Horace Greeley
    History
    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.
    Horace Greeley
    History