Mark Twain Quote About Congress

„There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.“

Mark TwainMark Twain's satirical quote highlights political crime in the American Congress.
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Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, and social critic.

Mark Twain satirically criticizes the political elite in the USA.


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Mark Twain quote about Congress

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), was a famous American writer and humorist. His works like ‚The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‘ and ‚The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‘ are classics of American literature. Twain was known for his sharp wit and critical view of society and politics.

Quote about democracy and political parties in the United States by H. L. MenckenCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds." H. L. Mencken
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Ayn Rand quote image about government, laws, and powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt." Ayn Rand
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Charles Wright Mills quote about the American elite and lack of leadershipCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The American elite is not composed of representative men whose conduct and character constitute models for American imitation and aspiration. There is no set of men with whom members of the mass public can rightfully and gladly identify. In this fundamental sense, America is indeed without leaders. Yet such is the nature of the mass public’s morally cynical and politically unspecified distrust that it is readily drained off without real political effect. That this is so, after the men and events of the last thirty years, is further proof of the extreme difficulty of finding and of using in America today the political means of sanity for morally sane objectives." Charles Wright Mills
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Quote on government as a broker in pillage by Henry Louis MenckenCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." Henry Louis Mencken
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