Mark Twain Quotes
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Twain, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson. American Publishing Company, 1894.
50 years later a similar phrase was made famous be anarchist Pierre Joseph Proudhon.
This philosophical point of view is at odds with that of many Native Americans.
The Diggers were a religious-economic movement that even today would be considered very radical. They advocated the right of the poor to go onto public lands and farm them—thus the name “Diggers.” Beyond their opposition to the private ownership of land to the exclusion of the poor, Winstanley and the Diggers promulgated another very modern doctrine: That the poor should take the responsibility and have the right to determinine how the society should provide for the poor. A version of this became one of the Mottos of the Poverty Program of 1964. See {616966}.
It was common for the Navaho to steal cattle and other livestock from neighboring lands—Mexico, Mormon Territory and the land of other Indians such as the Utes. Barboncito had committed himself to try and stop the stealing and himself stood guard at one of the border crossing points.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
