Mark Twain Quotes, Country Quotes, Government Quotes

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

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We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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We are all alike, on the inside.

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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