1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

There’s the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can’t protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don’t need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

I don’t care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won’t work.