1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.

An economist is a man that can tell you . . . what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.