Horace Greeley > Quotes

“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

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.”
― Horace Greeley

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

“While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal
the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have
nationalized 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

“The way we do things is to begin.”
― Horace Greeley

“He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.”
― Horace Greeley, What I know of farming

“The axe is the healthiest implement that man ever handled, and is especially so for habitual writers and other sedentary workers, whose shoulders it throws back, expanding their chests, and opening their lungs. If every youth and man, from fifteen to fifty years old, could wield an axe two hours per day, dyspepsia would vanish from the earth, and rheumatism become decidedly scarce. I am a poor chopper, yet the axe is my doctor and delight. Its used gives the mind just enough occupation to prevents its falling into revery or absorbing trains of thought, while every muscle in the body receives sufficient, yet not exhausting, exercise.”
― Horace Greeley, Recollections of a Busy Life

“Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.”
― Horace Greeley