"This country has gotten where it is..." - Quote by Will Rogers

“Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.”

“On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”

“There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.”

“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

“Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.”

“In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.”

“As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.”

“I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.”

“We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.”