"It wasn't what we needed then that..." - Quote by Will Rogers

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

“The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.”

“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”

“But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”

“I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.”

“The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street.”

“Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.”

“It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.”

“No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.”