Mark Twain Quotes
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Speeches. Harper & Brothers, 1910.
Here is another example of “the good old days” phenomenon. Similar complaints are made in most generations about most vices.
In the 1912 Republican convention both the Taft and the Roosevelt camps claimed a majority of forty delegates. A reporter asked Depew what he thought of the situation.
This is a common rejoinder of third world country leaders to accusations of Western democracies about corruption. And doubtless it is true. However temptation has never been a good defense of improper behavior.
Kott was indicted for accepting a bribe and Allen agreed to testify for the prosecution in exchange for lighter treatment. However, this illustrated the biggest Alaskan political scandal which involved many of the Republican state legislators, the long serving Alaskan U. S. Senator Ted Stevens and Stevens’ son were also the legislative leaders bribed to kill the tax bill. See {620070}.
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".
