Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

He wrote that "Soviet Russia was a revolutionary government with an evolutionary plan" enduring "a temporary condition of evil which is made tolerable by hope and a plan. He specialized in investigating government and political corruption and two collections of his articles were publiLincoln Steffensd as The Shame of the Cities (1904) and The Struggle for Self-Government (1906). Lincoln Steffens (April 6 1866 – August 9 1936) was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be publiLincoln Steffensd together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities.

Lincoln Steffens (April 6 1866 – August 9 1936) was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be publiLincoln Steffensd together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is famous for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union.