1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'

There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?

Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.

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.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?