I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You perceive," he said, "that you have made continual progress. Cain did his murder with a club; the Hebrews did their murders… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them… — 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
But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
![“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them." [ Letter to the Millicent (Rogers) Library , February 22, 1894]” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f36/mark-twain-22_libraries_a-public-library-is-the-most-enduring-of_1508750.jpg)
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