HORACE GREELEY

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

Ease up, the play is over.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

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

Mr. Lincoln is already beaten.…And we must have another ticket to save us.…If we had such a ticket as could be made by naming Grant, Butler, or Sherman for President…we could make a fight yet.

Each landless citizen may occupy and appropriate a small allotment of the National Domain free of charge.

Individuals must die that the nation may live.

…a low and dangerous demagogue.

I hate this hole, but I am glad to have come. It does me good to see those who hate the Tribune fear it yet more.

We should not care much whether those united were designated Whig, Free Soil Democrats or something else; though we think some simple name like Republican would more fitly designate those who had united to restore our Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

…an aristocratic, arbitrary ass.

The usually travelled route for a great many Members of the last Congress was an exceedingly crooked one, even for politicians.

Taylor won votes in both the free and slave states by reason of his persistent and obstinate silence and reserve on the vexed question of slavery.

We have adopted a war ready—made, and taken upon ourselves its prosecution to the end. We are to furnish the bodies to fill trenches and the cash to defray its enormous expense.

Our opponents struggled manfully, desperately; but wind and tide were against them. They had campaign and other papers, good speakers, and large meetings; but we were far ahead of them in singing and electioneering emblems and mottoes which appealed to popular sympathies.

Speculation, in its broadest sense, is not an evil in itself, but the contrary, and relieves public distress far oftener than it creates it.

After your first victory as New York Governor you gave jobs worth $3,000 to $20,000 per year to your friends and compatriots, and I returned to my garret and my crust, and my desperate battle with pecuniary obligations.

I do not intrude to tell you - for you must know already - that a great proportion of those who triumphed in your election, and of all who desire the unqualified suppression of the rebellion now desolating our country, are solely disappointed and deeply pained by the policy you seem to be pursuing with regard to the slaves of the Rebels. We think you are strangely and disastrously remiss in the discharge of your official and imperative duty with regard to the emancipating provisions of the new Confiscation Act. Those provisions were designed to fight slavery with liberty

a majority of those congregated in any Washington bar room.