Mark Twain Quotes
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Mark Twain, Writer, Founder, Anti-Imperialist League, Mark Twain's Autobiography
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
Also used in his Message to Congress, May 25, 1967
The president had visited Baltimore in August of 1828 and found the campaigning at a feverish pace:
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".