Thus sayeth Mr. Twain...
I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.
- letter to San Francisco Alta California, February 19, 1868
Libertatem Prius!
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Re: Thus sayeth Mr. Twain...
Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
- Mark Twain in Eruption; Mark Twain's Autobiography
Libertatem Prius!
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Twain was no Communist by the way, regardless of how some might like to paint him.
Communism is idiocy. They want to divide up the property. Suppose they did it -- it requires brains to keep money as well as make it. In a precious little while the money would be back in the former owner's hands and the communist would be poor again.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
SILAS TIMBERMAN, by Howard Fast,
a 1954 novel wherein Twain's works are accused of being Communist propaganda.
Libertatem Prius!
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Another Twain quote. A comment on individualisim.
"There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard."
-Mark Twain
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Who wrote this?
“[A] plongeur is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holiday is the sack... trapped by a routine which makes thought impossible. If plongeurs thought at all, they would long ago have formed a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But they do not think, because they have no leisure for it; their life has made slaves of them.”
canto XXV Dante
from purgatory, the lustful... "open your breast to the truth which follows and know that as soon as the articulations in the brain are perfected in the embryo, the first Mover turns to it, happy...."
Shema Israel
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Nikita Khrushchev: "We will bury you"
"Your grandchildren will live under communism."
“You Americans are so gullible.
No, you won’t accept
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outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of
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until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism.
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."
We’ll so weaken your
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until you’ll
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like overripe fruit into our hands."
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