1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this -- no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.