Occupation: Editor Birth: February 3, 1811 Death: November 29, 1872
Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no….
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, o….
Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine..
The way we do things is to begin..
Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic wi….
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it..
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..
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it..
Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty….
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 oppressi….
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets..
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.
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, ….
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press..
There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas..
If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be….
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it..
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character..
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shel….
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism..
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles..