Will Rogers Quotes

“Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.”

“Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.”

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

“In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.”

“Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.”

“A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.”

“The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.”

“Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!”

“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”

“I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.”

“In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.”

“Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.”

“With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!”

“That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.”

“You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.”

“The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.”

“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”

“Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”

“Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.”

“When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.”

“If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.”

“Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.”

“Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.”

“The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.”

“The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.”