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Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912) Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said. Mark Twain. Truth, Honesty, Politics. 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 morals. Mark Twain.
From MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE, 14 February 1901. Bottom caption: "Better quit your foolin', Mark, and go back and work at your trade." An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. - A Tramp Abroad. The new political gospel: public office is private graft. - More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927. "Moralist in disguise".
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." "Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can." "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who reall...
"Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." "The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog." "God created war so that Americans would learn geography." "It is by the goodness of God that in our count...
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned." "Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge." "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." "In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards."
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." "Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it." "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." "You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?...
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." “Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat." “Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." "I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religi...
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." "A lie can travel halfway around the w...
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." "To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble." "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." "A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory." "Kindness is a language which the deaf can...
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to b...
Mark Twain. Country, Party, Teaching. History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise. Mark Twain. Wise, Government, Sticks. Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006).
Mark Twain quotations - Government. The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and ...
Mark Twain, also known by his real name Samuel Clemens, was a renowned American writer and humorist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of all time, known for his wit, satire, and social commentary. Twain’s works often touched upon political issues, and his quotes continue to resonate with readers today.
No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul. - quoted in My Father Mark Twain, Clara Clemens. History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise. - New York ...
