Mark Twain Political Quotes

#1. I'm the original.

Sally Rand

#2. The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Mark Twain

#3. There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

Mark Twain

#4. In truth I care little about any party's politics-the man behind it is the important thing.

Mark Twain

#5. We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.

Dick Cheney

#6. 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 not that of the other side

Mark Twain

#7. Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

Mark Twain

#8. When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Piers Anthony

#9. For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

Mark Twain

#10. I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

Mark Twain

#11. 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 insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

Mark Twain

#12. In the seventeenth century the pound sterling was divided into twenty shillings (shortened to s.), and a shilling was divided into twelve pennies, or pence (shortened to d.). So an amount might be expressed as £2 10s 6d, or £2/10/6d.

Stephen Inwood

#13. The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Mark Twain

#14. 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, and live.

Mark Twain

#15. The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.

Andrew Carnegie

#16. The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

Florence L. Barclay

#17. Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

Mark Twain

#18. I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

Mark Twain

#19. I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

Mark Twain

#20. 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 whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

Mark Twain

#21. I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Jeff Bezos