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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
Will Rogers
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
Will Rogers
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
Will Rogers
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will Rogers
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
Will Rogers
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
Will Rogers
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Will Rogers
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
Will Rogers
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will Rogers
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
Will Rogers
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Will Rogers
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"
Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
Will Rogers
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will Rogers
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Will Rogers
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
Will Rogers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Will Rogers
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
Will Rogers
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will Rogers
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
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
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
Will Rogers
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Will Rogers
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Will Rogers
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
Will Rogers
