A biography for Horace Greeleyhasn’t been written yet.
“The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.”
“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.”
“Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.”
“Ease up, the play is over.”
“I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.”
“The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
“Common sense is very uncommon.”
“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
“I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.”
“There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.”
“Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.”
“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
“Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.”
“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”