I was looking through a bunch of Mark Twain quotes the other day, and darned if it didn't sound a lot to what has been happening in America for the last six years?
I hope and pray that the Bushbots will refrain from savaging Mark Twain, like they have smeared and savaged so many fine Americans, who have expressed their outrage at what has been happening during this time...
2007-09-20 02:44:30 · 9 answers · asked by dontknow772002 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
ON BUSH
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
ON BUSH'S RISE TO EMINENCE
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
ON BUSH'S PUBLIC ORATION
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
2007-09-20 02:45:06 · update #1
ON BUSH'S DESTINY
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
(Ok, Bush was not a shoemaker, but I think the mercenaries and millionaires made him king)
ON BUSH'S POST-911 POPULARITY
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Mark Twain
2007-09-20 02:46:03 · update #2
ON PATRIOTISM AND 9/11
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood of his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"- with his mouth.
- "The Lowest Animal"
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
- Education and Citizenship speech, 5/14/1908
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
ON THE 911 COMMISSION REPORT
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
2007-09-20 02:46:35 · update #3
ON THE PATRIOT ACT AND WARRANTLESS SPYING ON AMERICAN CITIZENS:
I think it is not wise for an emperor, or a king, or a president, to come down into the boxing ring, so to speak, and lower the dignity of his office by meddling in the small affairs of private citizens.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
ON IMPERIALISM
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
- quoted in A Pen Warmed Up in Hell
ON CONGRESS HANDING OVER THE POWER TO MAKE WAR OVER TO KING GEORGE
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
ON PRE-WAR IRAQ "INTELLIGENCE"
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain, (attributed)
2007-09-20 02:47:18 · update #4
ON TORTURE AT ABU-GHRAIB
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
Mark Twain, "The Lowest Animal"
ON THE IRAQ INVASION/OCCUPATION
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Mark Twain
ON NEW ORLEANS
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he as seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.
- Letter to Pamela Moffett, March 1859
ON GEORGE W. BUSH'S FUNERAL
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
Mark Twain
2007-09-20 02:47:40 · update #5
http://www.twainquotes.com/quotesatoz.html
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mark_Twain
2007-09-20 02:52:07 · update #6
Look at the Bushbots go! lol, giving themselves thumbs up under their multiple aliases...
Come on, Bushbots, we all know that you are less than 30% of people in America, and the whole world is reading this...
Give it a rest, chill, and read the dang things, and think about it...
Thanks
2007-09-20 02:59:33 · update #7
Skeptic: when I say "Bushbots", I don't mean 'conservative'...
Bush is as radical as they come, he is a mirror-image of any other 'radical' he would seek to eliminate, and his policies (re: government size and spending and foreign military intervention, for example) are the very opposite of the word "conservative"...
2007-09-20 04:03:34 · update #8
p.s. read anything by Paul Craig Roberts on this subject... he was the former Assistant Secretary to the Treasury under Ronald Reagan... even was greatly responsible for "Reaganomics"...
take your pick of essays he has written about the Bush administration and the dangers it has posed to the American way:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts-arch.html
2007-09-20 04:07:49 · update #9
lol
Interesting....
2007-09-20 03:01:58 · answer #1 · answered by skypower 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain was clearly a brilliant gentleman, but he died in 1910, so he was writing about other men. It's just quite interesting that so many of his things apply. You could say history is repeating itself. I wonder how much was written while William McKinley was president. If you've ever read Sarah Vowell's "Assassination Vacation," you'll know why I ask that.
2007-09-20 13:15:09 · answer #2 · answered by VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain aptly describes the approach of conservatives today. Amazing how he captured the essentials of politics in a way that is enduring and timeless.
The press and government has traditionally served the powerful and ignored the needs of most people.
2007-09-20 03:48:23 · answer #3 · answered by Skeptic 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Mark Twain could have been writing about many men and the human race in general.
2007-09-20 02:55:24 · answer #4 · answered by yancychipper 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
How accurate and brilliantly observent. (To Emily B)Truly some people must get their heads around the concept that "My country right or wrong" leads down a path to destruction. Please learn the lessons of empires that existed for hundreds of years before the fledgling USA
2007-09-20 08:39:03 · answer #5 · answered by furrybob66 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
nice... I now love Mark Twain.. thnx
2007-09-20 02:54:40 · answer #6 · answered by SLIFOX 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I think you savaged Twain all by yourself, by assuming you know his politics well enough to put his name and words to your agenda. Twain said some brilliant things. Don't bring him down to your level of thinking.
2007-09-20 02:51:46 · answer #7 · answered by Eraserhead 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Wow, where did you find this?
2007-09-20 02:52:16 · answer #8 · answered by Mimi 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
don't you have a rally to be at or something, you liberal twit !
I am sick of people like you putting down our president !
2007-09-20 02:57:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋