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
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. — 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
[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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. — 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 soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been. — 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
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Image