Quotes by Twain, Mark

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three u >>

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life >>

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it >>

Quotations about Empire

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. >>

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of >>

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross curren >>

We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for political influence. We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?

Twain, Mark