Mark Twain Quotes About Liberty

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Graduation, Wise

  "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.
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  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

  Change, Thank You, Memorial Day

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Trust, Freedom

• The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Inspiration, Humor

• Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Liberty, Danger, Congress

• 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)

• What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Money, Differences

  Notebook, Dec. 1902

• 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

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

  Mark Twain

  Freedom, Champion, Liberty

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

• 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

  Clothes, Liberty, Doe

• We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

  Mark Twain

  Liberty, Ark, Literature

• We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, Thinking, Names

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.272, Penguin

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

  Mark Twain

  Freedom, Liberty, Irreverence

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

• Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

  Mark Twain

  Dark, Doors, Sobriety

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

• Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Political, Enemy

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.142, Createspace Independent Pub

• Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

  Mark Twain

  Liberty, Trials, Good Things

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