Power is what men seek and any group that gets it ... -Lincoln Steffens

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Lincoln Steffens , Journalist
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The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickeri...
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it....
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully r...
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago....
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. T...
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, ...
I have been over into the future, and it works....
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a...
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization....

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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot ...
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men....
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....