“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions…there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A nation is only an individual multiplied. It makes plans and Circumstances comes and upsets them—or enlarges them. Some patriots throw the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case the government and the king may… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Each of you, for himself or herself, by himself or herself, and on his or her own responsibility, must speak. It is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
![“[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers"…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/053/mark-twain-22_feet_patriotism-is-a-word-which-always-commem_252789.png)
