"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”

“The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.”

“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.”

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.”

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

“The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.”

“If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.”

“Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.”