Quote#Politics & Power
Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I…
Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Osteopathy" (1901), in Mark Twain's Speeches, p. 253.
English (original)
Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh no.
— Mark Twain
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