"Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal……" — Lincoln Steffens
"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 people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties."
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52 Quotes by Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens has 52 quotes on this site.
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Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around…
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In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy.…
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The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet…
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First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough"…
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
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Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality,…
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I have seen the future, and it works.
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So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the…
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The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a…
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My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into…
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.
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While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
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When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music,…
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Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end
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Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon…
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