Quotes from Horace Greeley

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

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 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.

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

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

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

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?

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

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

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

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.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

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.

Go west, young man.

Common sense is very uncommon.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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

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

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.