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Mark Twain Quotes about Freedom

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.405, Courier Corporation

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1479, Delphi Classics

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.479, Jazzybee Verlag

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…”, p.1544, e-artnow

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.77, Courier Corporation