"Only a government that is rich and..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.”

“To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.”

“We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.”

“Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!”

“In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.”

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

“Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.”

“I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.”

“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”