Lincoln Steffens Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Party, Men, Cities

  Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.6, Courier Corporation

• If 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

  Party, Government, Two

  Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.6, Courier Corporation

• Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Party, Men, People

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