Lincoln Steffens Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.”

“It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.”

“My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.”

“My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.”

“My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.”

“The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.”

“We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.”

“The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.”