If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.


As quoted in New Yorker (25 August 1838); often paraphrased as "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country", sometimes misattributed to John L. Soule

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Horace Greeley Quotes

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.