Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was a prominent American newspaper editor, founder of the New-York Tribune, and a politician known for his influential, often radical views.

The famous phrase "Go West, young man" is most famously attributed to Horace Greeley, the influential editor of the New York Tribune. However, its exact origin is a matter of historical debate, with credit shared between two men.

Horace Greeley favored the expression and heavily popularized it through his editorials to promote Manifest Destiny and westward expansion. When the phrase became a massive national catchphrase, Greeley generously reprinted Soule's original article to show where he got his inspiration.

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

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

"It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom."

"We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable."

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

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

"While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery."

"Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well."

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