History Quotes / MarkTwain

->"''[[{{Arcadia}} The prairie in its loneliness and peace]]; that was what came back to him towards the end of his life, after he had pulled the rug out from all the [[{{Bowdlerise}} literary nabobs]], and fired off all his nubs and snappers, and sashayed through all the nations, and collected all his ceremonial gowns and degrees, and tweaked all the grinning [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents presidents]], and schmoozed all the newspaper reporters, [[TakeThat and stuck it to all his enemies,]] and shocked all the [[MoralGuardians librarians]], and [[HumansAreBastards cried out all his midnight blasphemies]], and buried most of his family.''"

->"''[[{{Arcadia}} The prairie in its loneliness and peace]]; that was what came back to him towards the end of his life, after he had pulled the rug out from all the [[{{Bowdlerise}} literary nabobs]], and fired off all his [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped nubs and snappers]], and sashayed through all the nations, and collected all his ceremonial gowns and degrees, and tweaked all the grinning [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents presidents]], and schmoozed all the newspaper reporters, [[TakeThat and stuck it to all his enemies,]] and shocked all the [[MoralGuardians librarians]], and [[HumansAreBastards cried out all his midnight blasphemies]], and buried most of his family.''"

->''Mark Twain once said'' '''''"The Man who Tells the Truth doesn't have to remember what he said"''''', and that iss great!... But Mark Twain also said '''''"There once was a big black man named Nigger Jim!"''''' so, I don't know if 100 procent of the things he said was completely awesome...

->''In a Republic, who is the country?\\
Is it the Goverment? Why the Government is merely a temporary servant; It cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not to originate them.\\
Who then is the country? Is it the newspaper? Is it the pulpit? Why these are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it; they have not command; they only have their little share in command.\\
In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country; in a Republic, it is the common voice of the people. Each of you, for himself or herself, by himself or herself, and on his or her own responsibility, must speak. It is a solemn and weighty responsibility and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government or politician. Each must decide for himself or herself alone what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man, to decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor. It is traitorous both against yourself and your country.\\
Let men label you as they may, if you alone of all the nation decide one way, and that way be the right way by your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country, hold up your head for you have nothing to be ashamed of.”''

Let men label you as they may, if you alone of all the nation decide one way, and that way be the right way by your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country, hold up your head for you have nothing to be ashamed of.\\”''

Let men label you as they may, if you alone of all the nation decide one way, and that way be the right way by your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country, hold up your head for you have nothing to be ashamed of.\\
It doesn’t matter what the press says. It doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. It doesnn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. Republics are founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe in. no matter the odds or consequences.\\
When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move. Your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth and tell the whole world:\\
“No, you move.”''

In a Republic, who is the country?\\

“No, you move.”

->"''[[{{Arcadia}} The prairie in its loneliness and peace]]; that was what came back to him towards the end of his life, after he had pulled the rug out from all the [[{{Bowdlerise}} literary nabobs]], and fired off all his [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped nubs and snappers]], and sashayed through all the nations, and collected all his ceremonial gowns and degrees, and tweaked all the grinning [[ThePresidents presidents]], and schmoozed all the newspaper reporters, [[TakeThat and stuck it to all his enemies,]] and shocked all the [[MoralGuardians librarians]], and [[HumansAreBastards cried out all his midnight blasphemies]], and buried most of his family.''"

-->-- '''Samuel Clemens''' on the [[HumansareBastards human race]]

-->--Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain.

->''It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it - it is like hitting a child. ''
-->--Samuel Clemens on the [[HumansareBastards human race]]