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Lincoln Steffens - The Shame of the Cities (1904)

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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.

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The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

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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 dickering, not principle.

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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.

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Born: April 6, 1866
Died: August 9, 1936 (aged 70)
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