Horace Greeley Men Quotations

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

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

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.

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

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

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