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"This poor little one-horse town."
"Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"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."
"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty."
"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.']."