Quotes by : Harold Holzer

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

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

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

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

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

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

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

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

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley