Sigmund Freud on America

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

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)