"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
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Editors from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesJournalists from New HampshireUnited States presidential candidates, 1872
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As quoted in The American Conflict, A History of the Great Rebellion (1864).
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Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (3 February 1811 – 29 November 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, New York Tribune, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer and a politician.
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