Mark Twain Quotes About Honor

• The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Media, America

  Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub

• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Family, Crazy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

• We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

  Mark Twain

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Honor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation

• Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Religious, Party

  Mark Twain (2015). “Christian Science”, p.343, Mark Twain

• When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Simple, Honor

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.152, Xist Publishing

• A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Party, Men

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.238, 1st World Publishing

• Honor is a harder master than the law.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Honor, Authority

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.231, Xist Publishing

• If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Honor, Study

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2483, GENERAL PRESS

• Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Patriotism, Honor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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