Lincoln Steffens Quotes

We in America are fighting the money power; but if men can elsewhere get the power without money, what so they care about money? Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. - Lincoln Steffens

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life's adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings. - Lincoln Steffens

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did. - Lincoln Steffens

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

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. - Lincoln Steffens

Morality is moral only when it is voluntary. - Lincoln Steffens

I have seen the future; and it works. (Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919) - Lincoln Steffens

I have been over into the future, and it works. - Lincoln Steffens

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. - Lincoln Steffens

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago. - Lincoln Steffens

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