Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Horace Greeley (American Journalist)

Horace Greeley (1811–72) was an influential American journalist, newspaper editor, and politician. His notable contributions included fervently expressing the North’s opposition to slavery during the 1850s.

Born in Amherst, New Hampshire, Greeley began his career as a Vermont printer apprentice before settling in New York City. There, he co-founded The New Yorker, a literary publication. In 1841, he established and served as editor for The New York Tribune. This daily Whig newspaper gained acclaim for its exemplary journalistic standards, intellectual discourse, and passionate conviction. Greeley’s editorials and writing style resonated deeply, earning him widespread recognition in American journalism. His platform became a catalyst for progressive causes, championing abolitionism, workers’ rights, and educational reform.

Aside from his journalistic endeavors, Greeley also engaged in politics. He briefly served as a congressman from New York. He even ran as the candidate for the Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 U.S. presidential election against President Ulysses S. Grant. Despite facing intense criticism and personal hardships during the campaign, he secured over 40 percent of the popular vote. Unfortunately, tragedy struck as Greeley passed away before the electoral votes were cast.

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

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground work of human freedom.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Liberty, Bible

The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Ethics, Money, Honesty

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Teamwork, The Past, Past

There is no bigotry like that of “free thought” run to seed.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Prejudice

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Opinions, Opinion

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Journeys

Duty and today are ours, results and futurity belong to God.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Present

Authorship is a royal priesthood; but woe to him who rashly lays unhallowed hands on the ark or altar, professing a zeal for the welfare of the race, only to secure his own selfish ends.
—Horace Greeley

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Apathy, One liners

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid.—Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but only sorrow can consecrate.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Grief

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Politicians, Politics

The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
—Horace Greeley

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be so long as the kitchen and the needle are subtsantially their only resources.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Woman

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Journalism, Journalists

Common Sense is very uncommon.
—Horace Greeley
Topics: Common Sense

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

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
—Horace Greeley

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