--- title: "9 Loyal Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "9 Loyal quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Loyal sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/mark-twain-22_affront_monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-t_2989434.png" --- > [Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions…there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-there-was-never-a-country/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/mark-twain-22_affront_monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-t_2989434.png) > [Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/loyalty-is-a-word-which-has-worked-vast-harm-for-it-has-been-made-to/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c8/mark-twain-22_cases_loyalty-is-a-word-which-has-worked-vast_1390812.png) > [The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-country-is-the-real-thing-the-substantial-thing-the-eternal-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc8/mark-twain-22_care_the-country-is-the-real-thing-the-substa_449856.png) > [We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-were-good-boys-good-presbyterian-boys-and-loyal-and-all-that/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cf/mark-twain-22_boys_we-were-good-boys-good-presbyterian-boys_2446383.png) > [Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/of-the-417-commandments-only-a-single-one-of-the-417-has-found/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf1/mark-twain-22_atheism_of-the-417-commandments-only-a-single-on_420232.jpg) > [Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-are-all-based-upon-that-large/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/962/mark-twain-22_affront_monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-a_1798382.png) > [My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/my-kind-of-loyalty-was-loyalty-to-one-s-country-not-to-its/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c7/mark-twain-22_body_my-kind-of-loyalty-was-loyalty-to-one-s_1407126.png) > [Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/narrative-should-flow-as-flows-the-brook-down-through-the-hills-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1d/mark-twain-22_brooks_narrative-should-flow-as-flows-the-brook_90944.jpg) > [“The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-country-is-the-real-thing-the-substantial-thing-the-eternal-thing-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b4/mark-twain-22_loyal_the-country-is-the-real-thing-the-substa_3205339.jpg) ## Other authors on Loyal ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/loyal/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "9 Loyal Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions…there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-there-was-never-a-country/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/mark-twain-22_affront_monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-t_2989434.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/mark-twain-22_affront_monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-t_2989434.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/mark-twain-22_affront_monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-t_2989434.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions…there was never a country where the majority of the people were in…” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; 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