74 Quotes by Horace Greeley

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

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.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

Ease up, the play is over.

If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

The way we do things is to begin.