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Mark Twain: Whiskey, demijohns & Demagogues

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Today’s M-TOPP: Mark Twain on Politics and Politicians

 

Congress, Whiskey, Demijohns and Demagogues

From: Mark Twain Notebook

“Whiskey is taken into the committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.”

 From: Roughing It 

That was a fine collection of sovereigns, that first Nevada legislature. They levied taxes to the amount of thirty or forty thousand dollars and ordered expenditures to the extent of about a million. Yet they had their little periodical explosions of economy like all other bodies of the kind. A member proposed to save three dollars a day to the nation by dispensing with the Chaplain. And yet that short-sighted man needed the Chaplain more than any other member, perhaps, for he generally sat with his feet on his desk, eating raw turnips, during the morning prayer. 

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“Suppose you were an idiot.

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“Whiskey is taken into the committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.”

Mark Twain Notebook

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What Mark Twain Learned Me ’bout Public Speakin’

“When I say I’ll learn (‘Teach’ is not in the river vocabulary) a man the river, I mean it. And you can depend on it, I’ll learn him or kill him.” Life on the Mississippi  – Mark Twain

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Wait – The power of the Pause

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