More quotes by Mark Twain

"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
"The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."
"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"
"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."