1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.