Lincoln SteffensThinkers

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Capital punishment is always believed in by People who deserve it.

Chicago is 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.

Heaven is a single place with hell, only to those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not, it is hell.

Hell is a single place with heaven, only to those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not, it is hell.

Japan sometimes looks as if it were a satire on and for Western civilization.

Liberty is the right of any person to stand up anywhere and say anything whatsoever that everybody thinks.

Logic is the soul of wit, not of wisdom, which is why wit is funny.

Politics is nothing but good manners in public.

Preparedness is the very difference between heaven and hell. They are a single place, but to those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not, it is hell.