Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.
I don’t know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can “show off” and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can’t shake off.
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
But in this country we have one great privilege which they don’t have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That’s the finest asset we’ve got – the ballot box.
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
If we only had some God in the country’s laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can’t travel any way but sideways and backways.
God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, “Our Country, right or wrong,” and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says – “Yes; the little ones does”.
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country’s flag and honor and welfare.
If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.