Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark TwainMore than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
Mark TwainThe fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
Mark TwainThe easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.
Mark Twain