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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Mark Twain
Office, Political, Politics
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.363, Courier Corporation

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Mark Twain
Loyalty, Country, Office
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 13 (1889)

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Mark Twain
Country, Law, Office

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

Mark Twain
Respect, Office, Pirate
Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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