Mark Twain Quotes
[The undersecretary's blundering tour of the Middle East might be the latest incarnation of Innocents Abroad.] The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them... We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them. 
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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
- Mark Twain
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.
- Mark Twain