Will Rogers

Will Rogers

"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it."
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"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it."
Will Rogers
"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
Will Rogers
"Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln."
Will Rogers
"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?"
Will Rogers
"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."
Will Rogers
"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
Will Rogers
"Politics is applesauce."
Will Rogers
"A fool and his money are soon elected."
Will Rogers
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
Will Rogers
"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."
Will Rogers
"I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do."
Will Rogers
"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."
Will Rogers
"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
Will Rogers
"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education."
Will Rogers
"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."
Will Rogers
"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself."
Will Rogers
"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth."
Will Rogers
"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics."
Will Rogers
"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."
Will Rogers
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