If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

Horace Greeley

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

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

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

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We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

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

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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

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Common sense is very uncommon.

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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

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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.

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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

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Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

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While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

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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.

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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

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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?

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Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

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

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There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

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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.

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

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