Lincoln Steffens Quotes
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My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.
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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
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I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
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My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
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If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
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In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
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Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
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The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
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It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
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If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
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I have been contending all my life, and always with God.