Horace Greeley, 1811 - 1872
1872 engraving by J. E. Baker
Born: 3 February 1811, Amherst, New Hampshire
Died: 29 November 1872, Pleasantville, New York
At age eleven Greeley was apprenticed to a printer, after his apprenticeship ended he moved to New York in 1831 and worked for a string of newspapers before founding the New York Tribune in 1841. He edited the Tribune for thirty years, reaching a large local audience daily plus another million Americans with his weekly edition. His editorials in favor of school reforms and westward expansion were mixed with opposition to drinking, smoking, slavery, gambling, prostitution, and flogging in the Navy. In 1872 he ran for president against Republican incumbent U. S. Grant and lost, despite being the nominee of two parties. Because he died before the electoral college met, only three electors cast their votes for him, and Congress disallowed those.
Biography from Wikipedia and Unitarian Universalist Association
Horace Greeley quotes:
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- Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
- Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
- Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
- Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
- Fame usually comes to those who are thinking of something else.
- I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
- I founded the New York Tribune as a journal removed alike from servile partisanship on the one hand and from gagged and mincing neutrality on the other.
- I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
- Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
- Life ain't all beer and skittles.
- Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
- Morality and religion are but words to those who crouch behind barrels in the street to cut the icy blasts, or fish in the gutters for the means to sustain life.
- Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.
- 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 needle are substantially their only resources.
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