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“The new political gospel: public office is private graft.”

Quote by Mark Twain

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

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Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

This book presents a curated selection of Mark Twain's most memorable and insightful quotes, showcasing his sharp wit and profound observations on various aspects of life and society. more

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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a renowned American author and humorist in the 19th century. His works are characterized by humor, satire, and profound social insight, with notable novels such as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. more

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“...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".”

Firsts Shows Politics Thousand Ten Achievement Fairs Dollars Forty Legislature Institute Showing Off Asylums Pumpkin Territorial

Book:Roughing It: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: Roughing It: Mark Twain's Collections

“When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.”

Way Believe Government Politics Accepting Impossible Crime Incredibles Infamy

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

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“To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.”

Government Political Politics Party Moral Power Society Morality Authority Graduation Publicity Governing Lodges Deterioration Bad Government Deteriorating

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition

“All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.”

Mind Has Beens Country Problem Political Politics Difficult Rich Strange Citizens Average Doctrine Proven Difficult Problems

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“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.”

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“I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner”

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“If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false”

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“Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten”

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“The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.”

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“I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free”

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