Mark Twain Quotes About Constitution

• 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

• I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, People, Justice

  Mark Twain (1960). “Mark Twain and the Government”

• When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!

  Mark Twain

  Home, Piano, Want

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869”, p.235, Univ of California Press

• 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

• God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Dollars, Constitution

• God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Coins, Constitution

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

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