There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed. by Horace Greeley

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

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.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan h... by Horace Greeley

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. by Horace Greeley

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. by Horace Greeley

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... by Horace Greeley

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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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.

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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're do... by Horace Greeley

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. by Horace Greeley

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

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

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 anticipate... by Horace Greeley

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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