Political Quotes by Mark Twain

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

— Mark Twain

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark Twain

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

— Mark Twain

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

— Mark Twain

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

— Mark Twain

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

— Mark Twain

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

— Mark Twain

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

— Mark Twain

I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve…

— Mark Twain

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does…

— 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

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,…

— Mark Twain

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

— Mark Twain

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read…

— Mark Twain

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations…

— Mark Twain

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean,…

— Mark Twain

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is…

— Mark Twain

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of…

— Mark Twain

The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not…

— Mark Twain

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who…

— Mark Twain

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced…

— Mark Twain

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &…

— Mark Twain

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash.…

— Mark Twain

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for…

— Mark Twain

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

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

— Mark Twain

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was…

— Mark Twain

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

— Mark Twain

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in…

— Mark Twain

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other…

— Mark Twain

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political…

— Mark Twain

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two…

— 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

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

— Mark Twain