Horace Greeley Quotes


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.


Context

Most Politicians hated his newspaper, which often attacked individual Congressmen and Congress itself


Citations

Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, Newspaper Editor & Candidate for the Liberal Republican Presidential nomination (Defeated by Grant), Describing his visit to Washington D.C. to report on Congress. Letter to Charles Dana, December 1854

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Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley
  • Born: February 3, 1811
  • Died: November 29, 1872
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Editor

Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide.