The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
Lincoln SteffensIt is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
Lincoln SteffensCare like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.
Lincoln SteffensBoston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
Lincoln SteffensI 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.
Lincoln SteffensIf we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
Lincoln Steffens