Note 121 — Chapter IV · THURLOW WEED TRIMS HIS SAILS 1863
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"Let it pass whether or not the editor of the Tribune has been intensely ambitious for office. It would have been a blessed thing for the country if the editor of the Journal had been impelled by the same passion. For avarice is more ignoble than ambition, and the craving for jobs has a more corrupting influence, alike on the individual and the public, than aspiration to office."—New York Tribune, December 12, 1862.