Affront Quote by Mark Twain

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire,…

— Mark Twain

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be…

— Mark Twain

“The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be…

— Mark Twain

“You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing,…

— Mark Twain

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial…

— Mark Twain

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost…

— W. H. Auden

In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only…

— Linda Colley

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

— Ellen Gilchrist

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

— Joseph Goebbels

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

— Mark Twain