Best Lincoln Steffens Quotes
- 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… Down
- 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… All
- The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not… Commercial
- My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who… All
- The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has… Bach
- I am really puzzled to understand myself. Funny
- My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion. Father
- If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality. Father
- My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being. Father
- My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline. Discipline
- Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. Boston
- Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. Administration
- I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church. Christian
- I have been contending all my life, and always with God. All
- Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. Along
- Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. Ethics
- The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered. Doctrine
- My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I… Became
- Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The… Almost Invariably
- We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. American
- Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon… Always Leads
- If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to… All
- 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. Condition
- The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people. Gentle
- I have been over into the future, and it works. Been