Horace Greeley Quotes

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

Character, Fame, Accident

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley

Life, Money, Down

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley

Living, Apathy, Oblivion

Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley

Sense, Common, Uncommon

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
Horace Greeley

Rights, Whose, Inferior

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
Horace Greeley

Country, Young, Grow

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Horace Greeley

Down, Rise, Sit

Ease up, the play is over.
Horace Greeley

Go west, young man.
Horace Greeley

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Horace Greeley

Said, Democrats

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
Horace Greeley

Keep, Alive, While

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley

Times, Illusion, Ages

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.
Horace Greeley

Thought, Free, Run

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: February 3, 1811

Died: November 29, 1872

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