1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.

The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.

You can't say that civilization don't advance; for in every war they kill you a new way.

If these refugees had come to Texas and called call centers, most of them, instead of getting help, would have gotten busy signals,

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

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