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Samuel Clemens, later known as Mark Twain, is born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835.

Clemens was apprenticed to a printer at age 13 and later worked for his older brother, who established the Hannibal Journal. In 1857, the Keokuk Daily Post commissioned him to write a series of comic travel letters, but after writing five he decided to become a steamboat captain instead. He signed on as a pilot’s apprentice in 1857 and received his pilot’s license in 1859, when he was 23.

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“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”

Benjamin Harrison

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Mark Twain

“America rules the world – by force.”

Harry Browne

“Virtually all reasonable laws are obeyed, not because they are the law, but because reasonable people would do that anyway. If you obey a law simply because it is the law, that’s a pretty likely sign that it shouldn’t be a law.”

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“Communism is idiocy. They want to divide up the property. Suppose they did it — it requires brains to keep money as well as make it. In a precious little while the money would be back in the former owner’s hands and the communist would be poor again.”

Mark Twain

“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”

David Hume

“When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”

Thomas Sowell

“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.”

Edward Abbey

“The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or destroy it by subsidized government competition, oppressive taxation, or outright expropriation.”

Henry Hazlitt

“The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.”

Jacob G. Hornberger

“None of the propaganda around war can disguise its true nature. It is massive organized violence for the purpose of expanding government power. It is the height of statism and it is the greatest affront to freedom.”

Adam Kokesh

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.”

Mark Twain

“Nemesis, the goddess of retribution and vengeance, the punisher of pride and hubris, waits impatiently for her meeting with us.”

Chalmers Johnson

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

“Grades don’t measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.”

John Taylor Gatto

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Mark Twain

Via History.com

Samuel Clemens, later known as Mark Twain, is born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835.

Clemens was apprenticed to a printer at age 13 and later worked for his older brother, who established the Hannibal Journal. In 1857, the Keokuk Daily Post commissioned him to write a series of comic travel letters, but after writing five he decided to become a steamboat captain instead. He signed on as a pilot’s apprentice in 1857 and received his pilot’s license in 1859, when he was 23.

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“At the root of America’s economic crisis lies a moral crisis: the decline of civic virtue among America’s political and economic elite. A society of markets, laws, and elections is not enough if the rich and powerful fail to behave with respect, honesty, and compassion toward the rest of society and toward the world.”

Jeffrey Sachs

“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”

Mark Twain

“The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.”

George Bernard Shaw

“The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.”

H. L. Mencken

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.”

Mark Twain

“Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.”

Allan Meltzer

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

James Madison

“Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production.”

Noam Chomsky

“The answer to 1984 is 1776.”

Alex E. Jones

“Don’t let education interfere with your learning.”

Mark Twain

“How can it be that institutions which serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed toward establishing them?”

Carl Menger

“To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.”

Lysander Spooner

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