Under that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay,... The Nationalist - Page 116edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
| Mark Twain - 1890 - 592 pages
...try to prove myself its loyalest citizen by making a wholesome change in its system of government." You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country,...as he does. And now here I was, in a country where the right to say how the country should be governed was restricted to six persons in each thousand... | |
| John Albert Macy - 1913 - 368 pages
...the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does." That is the Mark Twain who "jokingly" said that the only distinct native criminal class in America... | |
| Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1920 - 288 pages
...the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down, if they do not see the matter as he does." 5. COMMUNITY CENTERS IN OPERATION The four concrete tasks here suggested are fundamental pieces of... | |
| Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1922 - 332 pages
...the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down, if they do not see the matter as he does." I dwell on this distinction between the state and the nation, because there is now in some quarters... | |
| Edwin Van Berghen Knickerbocker - 1923 - 386 pages
...the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does." That is the Mark Twain who "jokingly" said that the only distinct native criminal class in America... | |
| Mark Twain - 1972 - 420 pages
...try to prove myself its loyalest citizen by making a wholesome change in its system of government.' You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country,...as he does. And now here I was, in a country where the right to say how the country should be governed was restricted to six persons in each thousand... | |
| Louis J. Budd - 1999 - 674 pages
...snatched, and reads nineteenth century people a lesson in political science. "The citizen" he says, "who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political...him down if they do not see the matter as he does." But the Yankee believed in accomplishing political reforms by appropriate means. Applying his own lesson... | |
| 298 pages
...issue more quickly, he understands that a certain level of social development must first be attained: And now here I was, in a country where a right to...to six persons in each thousand of its population. ... It seemed to me that what the nine hundred and ninety-four dupes needed was a new deal. The thing... | |
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