Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day."[1] Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as opposition to slavery and a host of reforms. Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U.S. presidential election. Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide. He is currently the only presidential candidate who has died during the electoral process.
“Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.”
“The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
“He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.”
“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
“The way we do things is to begin.”
“While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to concealthe ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we havenationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.”
“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”