WILL ROGERS Quotes

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Will Rogers

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives

Will Rogers

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it

Will Rogers

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Will Rogers

The man 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?"

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Will Rogers

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

Will Rogers

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

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Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes

Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Will Rogers