Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty."
"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
"Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience."
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable."
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."