Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Joseph Steffenswas a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 April 1866
CountryUnited States of America
father government constitution-of-the-united-states
I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.
morning lying father
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.
father feet laughing
My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.
father boys likes
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.
mother father games
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
father son watches
If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
father knows
My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
mother father light
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
mistake father parent
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.
father practice care
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
breaking cities connection discovered leads men shared soon
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.
morality
Morality is moral only when it is voluntary.
The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.
abuse gets men power seek
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.