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Not who you're looking for? Others named Horace Greeley: American politician and publisher (1811–1872) · Ward statue of Greeley in City Hall Park, Manhattan · Canadian politician (1858–1935)
“If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.”
“Mr. Marx has very decided opinions of his own, with some of which we are far from agreeing, but those who do not read his letters are neglecting one of the most instructive sources of information on the great questions of current European politics.”
“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.”
“The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.”
“The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.”
“There aren't half enough of them going there as it is.”
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Horace Greeley, also known as the Greeley Memorial, is an outdoor bronze sculpture of Horace Greeley by Alexander Doyle, located in Greeley Square Park in Manhattan, New York. The statue, cast in 1892 and dedicated on May 30, 1894, sits atop a Quincy granite pedestal. It contains the following inscription:
