The government is merely a servant — merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
Quotes you may like!
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, Aprll, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest. message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 16, 1901 ~ Mark Twain Quotes
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
