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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
You should never nag, whine, preach or plead with your dog because this is not the way leaders behave
— Lisa 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
The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
— 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.
— Lincoln Steffens
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
— Lincoln Steffens
Certainty is a comfort. And a hindrance.
— Jason M. Steffens
It is so easy to have our eyes opened, but then close them again, pretend it never happened, and go back to doing what has always been done.
— Jason M. Steffens
It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.
— Lincoln Steffens
Choose the things that matter to God. See things as He sees them. Whatever results, that is the best way.
— Jason M. 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.
— Lincoln Steffens
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
— Lincoln Steffens
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
— Lincoln Steffens
You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.
— Lincoln Steffens
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.
— Lincoln Steffens
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
— Lincoln Steffens
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
— Lincoln Steffens
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
— Lincoln Steffens
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