1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.

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

A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

All I know is what I read in the papers

If they wasn't in congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.

We had a great lunch. Senator Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin' now, the Republicans pay for it. Everybody asks me, "Will, how long is this going to go on, spending all this money and everything going like this?" I says, "Well, it will go on just as long as the Republicans has got any money. That's all I know about it."