Quotes by : Lincoln Steffens

If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out....

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy.....

morality is moral only when it is voluntary

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so....

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we....

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil,....

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

An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’....

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done not often.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian....