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Quotes by Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley's insights on:

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There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.
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Go west, young man.
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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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.
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The darkest day in a man’s career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
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Printer’s ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
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The word “rest” is not in my vocabulary.
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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.
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Our country right or wrong is an evil motto – what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.
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There is no bigotry like that of “free thought” run to seed.
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