1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

We have the best Congress money can buy.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.