I have seen the future, and it works.

- Lincoln Steffens

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

- Lincoln Steffens

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 …

- Lincoln Steffens

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

- Lincoln Steffens

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

- Lincoln Steffens

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

- Lincoln Steffens

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

- Lincoln Steffens

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

- Lincoln Steffens

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

- Lincoln Steffens