92 Quotes by Harold Holzer

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. Abraham Lincoln

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.