Harold Holzer

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

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 of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

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

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

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