Country Quotes by Mark Twain

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

— Mark Twain

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

— Mark Twain

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

— Mark Twain

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

— Mark Twain

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

— Mark Twain

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

— Mark Twain

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

— Mark Twain

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

— Mark Twain

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the…

— Mark Twain

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it…

— Mark Twain

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

— Mark Twain

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution…

— Mark Twain

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to…

— Mark Twain

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government…

— Mark Twain

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for…

— Mark Twain

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put…

— Mark Twain

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other…

— Mark Twain

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly,…

— Mark Twain

I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who…

— Mark Twain

That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the…

— Mark Twain

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish…

— Mark Twain

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

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,…

— Mark Twain

A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry…

— Mark Twain

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and…

— Mark Twain

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds…

— Mark Twain

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

— Mark Twain

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

— Mark Twain

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

— Mark Twain

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little…

— Mark Twain

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

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

— Mark Twain

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the…

— Mark Twain

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell…

— Mark Twain

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be…

— Mark Twain

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and…

— Mark Twain

“No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians…

— Mark Twain

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

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few…

— Mark Twain

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is…

— Mark Twain