American - Journalist | April 6, 1866 - August 9, 1936
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.
Lincoln Steffens
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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.
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If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
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If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
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The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
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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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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
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I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
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Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.
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The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.
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The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
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The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.
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