Reply to a missionary who asked Greeley for a subscription to "help keep people from going to hell", as quoted in "Grab-bag Education", The Book of Journeyman (1930) by Albert Jay Nock
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There aren't half enough of them going there as it is.
— Horace Greeley
What It Means
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About Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (3 February 1811 – 29 November 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, New York Tribune, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer and a politician.
About Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (3 February 1811 – 29 November 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, New York Tribune, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer and a politician.
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