Mark Twain Patriot Quotes & Sayings

the acquisition of knowledge without understanding is becoming increasingly inadequate — Knud Illeris

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart. — Mark Twain

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. — Mark Twain

Unsurprisingly, planning was most admired and advocated at the political extremes. — Tony Judt

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation? — Mark Twain

Women are incredibly intuitive. If anybody on the planet is going to evolve to the next level, that telekinetic thing, women will. — Robin Williams

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst. — Mark Twain

The sedentary life ... is the real sin against the holy spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. — Keith Jarrett

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger. — Randy Harrison

Now that he was semidressed, I recovered enough to say, "Not really. But I guess if you want me to hold a conversation with you, you should keep your clothes on."
He gestured for me to follow him through the house, and I thought I heard him mutter, "Conversation is so overrated. — Renae Kaye

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved. — Mark Twain

Yes," I said, "that is what I mean to say. I am not going to vote for him." The others began to find their voices. They sang the same note. They said that when a party's representatives choose a man, that ends it. If they choose unwisely it is a misfortune, but no loyal member of the party has any right to withhold his vote. He has a plain duty before him and he can't shirk it. He must vote for that nominee. I said that no party held the privilege of dictating to me how I should vote. That if party loyalty was a form of patriotism, I was no patriot, and that I didn't think I was much of a patriot anyway, for oftener than otherwise what the general body of Americans regarded as the patriotic course was not in accordance with my views; that if there was any valuable difference between being an American and a monarchist it lay in the theory that the American could decide for himself what is patriotic and what isn't; whereas — Mark Twain

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor. — Mark Twain

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. — Mark Twain