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"For in a Republic, who is 'the country?'
Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle?
Why, the Government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't.
Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."
-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American author and humorist
"For in a Republic, who is 'the country?'
Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle?
Why, the Government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't.
Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."
-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American author and humorist