Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 696 |
| AUTHOR: | Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) |
| QUOTATION: | “So you’ve been over into Russia?” said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, “I have been over into the future and it works.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Steffens had made his second trip to Russia in 1919, as part of a mission sent by President Woodrow Wilson. |
| SUBJECTS: | Future |