“I have seen the Future, and it works.”
Lincoln Steffens, letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations notes: "Steffens had composed the expression before he had even arrived in Russia."
Works
The Shame of the Cities
Lincoln SteffensThe Shame of the Cities
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Lincoln Steffens Quotes
“The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.”
Lincoln Steffens book The Shame of the Cities
Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (New York: Hill and Wang, 1957 [1904]), p. 2.
