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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

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

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh

Will Rogers

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Will Rogers

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Will Rogers

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.