"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.”

“To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.”

“Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'”

“Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked”

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

“At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations.”

“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”