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

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

Mark Twain
Country, Government, Patriot

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Mark Twain
Country, Party, Teaching

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Mark Twain
Country, Government, Law
Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.269

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

Mark Twain
Country, Patriotic, Men
Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain
Loyalty, Country, Peace
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain
Wisdom, Country, Freedom
Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Mark Twain
Country, Men, Judging
Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.243

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.

Mark Twain
Country, Integrity, 4th Of July

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

Mark Twain
Christian, Country, Degrees
Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.132, Univ of California Press

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Mark Twain
Country, Prayer, Taxation
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.467, Courier Corporation

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

Mark Twain
Country, 4th Of July, Years
Pudd'nhead Wilson Chapter XVII (p. 164)

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Mark Twain
Loyalty, Country, Office
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 13 (1889)

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Mark Twain
Country, Surprise, Whole
Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.388, Library of America

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day
"The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

Mark Twain
Country, Heart, People

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

Mark Twain
Christian, Country, America
Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.188, Univ of California Press

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

Mark Twain
Country, Usa, People

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

Mark Twain
Loyalty, Country, Real
Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

Mark Twain
Christian, Country, Would Be

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

Mark Twain
Country, Law, Sweat
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.230, Courier Corporation

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Mark Twain
Country, Law, Office

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Mark Twain
Country, Two, Independence
Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.27, Courier Corporation

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

Mark Twain
Christian, Country, America
Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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
Country, Religious, War
Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.392, Univ of California Press

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

Mark Twain
Country, Average, Political

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