POLITICAL HUMOR BY MARK TWAIN

“I don’t mind what the opposition say of me, so long as they don’t tell the truth.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
American author and humorist
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From a speech Twain gave in Hartford, Connecticut on October 26, 1880…

You don’t get anything out of the opposition but a noble, good supply of infamous episodes in your own private life which you hadn’t heard of before,” he said. “However, I don’t mind these things particularly. It is the only intelligent and patriotic way of conducting a campaign. I don’t mind what the opposition say of me, so long as they don’t tell the truth about me; but when they descend to telling the truth about me, I consider that that is taking an unfair advantage.”