Quotes by : Harold Holzer

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

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

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that....

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

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was....

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part....

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

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