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Quote from Mark Twain,

"Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk
this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man
label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right,
you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of."



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Mark Twain (more quotes by Mark Twain or books by/about Mark Twain)


[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American author and humorist

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Conviction, Duty, Independence, Individualist, Morality, Reason, Self-Determination

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