Mark Twain on Politics
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Mark Twain, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #134057: "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #248938: ""It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the…"
4 Quotes by Mark Twain on Politics
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
""It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people–who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations–do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper, and there is where the harm lies."... "That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.""
"An unpopular opinion concerning politics or religion lies concealed in the breast of every man; in many cases not only one sample, but several. The more intelligent the man, the larger the freightage of this kind of opinions he carries, and keeps to himself."
"Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity."