Quotes from Mark Twain

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong, " and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.