"All the territorial possessions of all the..." - Quote by Mark Twain
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.
More by Mark Twain
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
“We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.”
More on History
“... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.”
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.”
“Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.”
More on Land
“Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.”
“The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.”
“Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.”