Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
Lincoln Steffens
Power is what men seek, and ...
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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
Lincoln Steffens
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
Lincoln Steffens
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
Lincoln Steffens
We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.
Lincoln Steffens
