All Mark Twain Quotes
- The new political gospel: public office is private graft. Gospel
- ...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in -… Achievement
- When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept… Accept
- To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public… All
- All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since… Ablest
- I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the… Among
- Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible. Brutal
- We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the… Association
- Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. Average
- In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. Any
- There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in… All
- So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's… Add
- Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by… Addition
- 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. Any
- The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere… Able
- My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything. Believe
- We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it… All
- I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway. Better
- I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's. Concerning
- I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if… All
- We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in… Allow
- A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because… Ashamed
- The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred… Amounts
- Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. Apparently
- I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps… Alike