Lincoln steffens quotes
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization....
You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Austin Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an Americaninvestigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century.
He 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 his sympathetic 1919 statement after visiting Soviet Russia in 1919 and for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities.
Quotes
- The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.
- Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (New York: Hill and Wang, 1957 [1904]), p.
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- Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (New York: Hill and Wang, 1957 [1904]), p.
- I have seen the Future, and it works.
- Lincoln Steffens, letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations comments: "Steffens had composed the expression before he had even arrived in Russia."
- Soviet Russia was a revolutionary gover
