To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious… — 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
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 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
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. — 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
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you are in politics you are in a wasp's nest with a short shirt-tail, as the saying is. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. — 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
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve… — 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
