Harold Holzer Quotes

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.

Lincoln again got his name prominently mentioned in the New York Tribune, though this time it was for allegedly pumping up his expense account.

His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.

One of the cost of holding a Federal office was geographic isolation in the nation's capital.

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.