Laurence J. Peter on America

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

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)