"In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.”

“There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.”

“Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.”

“Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.”

“I believe you can joke about anything.”

“The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.”

“People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.”

“I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries.”

“The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.”