Each man must for himself alone decide 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 against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."
"Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness."
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.']."
"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."