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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1594 |
| AUTHOR: | Horace Greeley (1811–72) |
| QUOTATION: | The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | HORACE GREELEY, Greeley on Lincoln, ed. Joel Benton, pp. 78–79 (1893). He is referring to the Civil War. |
| SUBJECTS: | Republic |
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