Mark Twain Quotes, Government Quotes, Order Quotes

The government is merely a servant―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 originate them.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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Let us save the tomorrows for work.

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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

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Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

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