Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
Horace Greeley Quotes
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
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| Birth: | 3rd February, 1811 |
| Death: | 29th November, 1872 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Editor, Politician |
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Horace Greeley was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, USA. He was founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. He served briefly as a congressman from New York. He was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant.
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