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

January 1, 1970

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Editors from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesJournalists from New HampshireUnited States presidential candidates, 1872
Original Language: English

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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