The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them.… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
