Quotes by Horace Greeley

• I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
• The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
• Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
• Common sense is very uncommon.
• Ease up, the play is over.
• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
• Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
• Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
• Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
• There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
• The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.