Quotes by Rogers, Will




William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. He was the father of U.S. Congressman and WWII Veteran Will Rogers, Jr..

"When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's Memoirs."

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"We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile."

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"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."

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"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"

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"I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce."

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"No party is as bad as its leaders."

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"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

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"Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space."

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"The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best."

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"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected."

Rogers, Will on politics
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"This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation."

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"The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it."

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"I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good."

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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

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"You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way."

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"One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next."

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"Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything."

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"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

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"There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs."

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"Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke."

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"Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf."

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"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

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"The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr."

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"Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr."

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"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."

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"If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics."

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"Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation."

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"The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?"

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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

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"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education."

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"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."

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"Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work."

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"There should be one day when there is open season on senators."

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"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

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"With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke."

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"Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects. "

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"For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. "

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"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. "

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