Harold Holzer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.

From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Wilbur Storey

General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission.

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

New York Times founder Henry Raymond started his newspaper, "with the goal of reforming government, not belittling it.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.