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Political Quotes by Mark Twain
- Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is…
- No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field,…
- Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are…
- Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
- When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are…
- I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.
- We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,…
- I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
- Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but…
- A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the…
- All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever…
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
- Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
- Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
- What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
- Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
- In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
- The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide…
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- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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