Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.


A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (ed. Createspace Independent Pub, 1889)

Mark Twain Quotes

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed,...

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed,...

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed,...

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed,...