Cities Quote by Lincoln Steffens

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

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

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

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

— Lincoln Steffens

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

— Lincoln Steffens

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

— Lincoln Steffens

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

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

— Lincoln Steffens

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

— Lincoln Steffens

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

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

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

— Lincoln Steffens