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Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know
— Lincoln Steffens
The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.
— Lincoln Steffens
The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
— Lincoln Steffens
Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.
— Lincoln Steffens
I have seen the future, and it works.
— Lincoln Steffens
I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.
— Lincoln Steffens
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
— Lincoln Steffens
You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.
— Lincoln Steffens
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
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The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
— Lincoln Steffens
It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.
— Lincoln Steffens
I have been over into the future, and it works.
— Lincoln Steffens
I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
— Lincoln Steffens
The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.
— Lincoln Steffens
I am really puzzled to understand myself.
— Lincoln Steffens
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
— Lincoln Steffens
The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
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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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The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
— Lincoln Steffens
You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
— Lincoln Steffens
If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
— Lincoln Steffens
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
— Lincoln Steffens
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
— Lincoln Steffens
It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
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Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
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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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The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.
— Lincoln Steffens
morality is moral only when it is voluntary
— Lincoln Steffens