My Internet wanderings this morning somehow carried me past the official site of Will Rogers. Best known for saying he never met a man he didn’t like, Rogers was a beloved humorist, commentator, and media personality of the 1920s and ’30s. Here is one of his observations, which I think I’m going to adopt as a motto:

“I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”

And here’s a bonus Rogers quote, which has a somewhat darker edge in light of current circumstances:

“If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, ‘America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership.'”

The amazing thing, of course, is that these remarks (while admittedly taken out of context) still have relevance some 60 years after Rogers first said them…