All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. Mark Twain Autobiography

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That is true, Colonel. To be sure you can buy now and then a Senator or a Representative but they do not know it is wrong, and so they are not ashamed of it. Mark Twain: The Guilded Age

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At the age of nine you stole sugar. At the age of fifteen you stole money. At twenty you stole horses. At twenty-five you committed arson. At thirty, hardened in crime, you became an editor. You are now a public lecturer. Worse things are in store for you. You will be sent to Congress. Next, to the penitentiary. Mark Twain: My Late Senatorial Secretaryship

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I think I comprehend the position there—perfect freedom to vote just as you choose, provided you choose to vote as other people think—social ostracism, otherwise.Mark Twain Letter 1876

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Shall we ever have a Congress, a majority of whose members are hopelessly insane? Probably not. But it is possible—unquestionably such a thing is possible.Mark Twain Letter to Sister, 1869

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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.Mark Twain: What is Man?

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