We are all inconsistent. We are offended and resent it when people do not respect us; and yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain Quotes
Our conscience takes no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us. In all cases without exception we are absolutely indifferent to another person’s pain until his sufferings make us uncomfortable.
Conscience, man’s moral medicine chest.
A man’s first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
A jay hasn’t got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.
Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
