Horace Greeley Quotations

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

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.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

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.

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

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.

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.