<P> "Go West, young man" is a phrase often credited to the American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley concerning America's expansion westward, related to the then - popular concept of Manifest Destiny . It was first stated by John Babsone Lane Soule in an 1851 editorial in the Terre Haute Express, "Go west young man, and grow up with the country ." Greeley later used the quote in his own editorial in 1865 . </P> <P> Greeley favored westward expansion . He saw the fertile farmland of the west as an ideal place for people willing to work hard for the opportunity to succeed . The phrase came to symbolize the idea that agriculture could solve many of the nation's problems of poverty and unemployment characteristic of the big cities of the East . It is one of the most commonly quoted sayings from the nineteenth century and may have had some influence on the course of American history . </P>

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