Lincoln Steffens Quotes
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One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.
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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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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
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You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
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If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
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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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Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
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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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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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It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
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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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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.