Robert Frost on America

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)

• Politics

Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

H. L. Mencken1880–1956‘Notes On Journalism’ in the Chicago Tribune (19 September 1926)