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
spiritual space people
Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.
contending has-beens
I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
christian church heard
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
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.
lawlessness spirit american-spirit
The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
cities giving chicago
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
cities village dirt
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
jesus doctrine revolutionary
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
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.
russia said has-beens
So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.
father practice care
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
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 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.