Best 38 quotes of Harold Holzer on MyQuotes

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

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

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

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.

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

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

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

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

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

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Wilbur Storey

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.

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

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

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. Abraham Lincoln

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.

New York Times founder Henry Raymond started his newspaper, "with the goal of reforming government, not belittling it.

One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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

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

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

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

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

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.

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

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

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

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

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

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