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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Will Rogers
Funny, Letting Go, Humorous
Will Rogers (1992). “Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies”, p.44, University of Oklahoma Press

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

Will Rogers
Real, War, People
Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

Will Rogers
Beautiful, Young, Being Old

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

Will Rogers
Promise, Done, Politics

With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!

Will Rogers
Ideas, Contentment, Hyenas

Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance to get even with 'em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are.

Will Rogers
Business, Liars, Ems
Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Will Rogers
Prayer, Mean, Lasts
Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.220, Rowman & Littlefield

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

Will Rogers
Horse, Reading, Government
Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes.

Will Rogers
Horse, Fishes

I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.

Will Rogers
Business, Matter

If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'

Will Rogers
Country, Night, Hands

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

Will Rogers
Mother, Wisdom, Elephants
Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.25, Rowman & Littlefield

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

Will Rogers
People, Want, Common
Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

Will Rogers
Food, Guy, Cooking

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.

Will Rogers
Gun, Human Life, Humans
Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers
Military, War, Fall
Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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

Will Rogers
Death, War, Civilization
Quoted in N.Y. Times, 23 Dec. 1929

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

Will Rogers
Business, House, Ems
Will Rogers, James Smallwood (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Will Rogers
Land, Advice, Stuff
"Land in America: Its Value, Use, and Control". Book by Peter M. Wolf, p. 6, 1981.

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

Will Rogers
Exercise, Golf, Feet

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

Will Rogers
Humor, People, Laughing
Will Rogers (1992). “Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies”, p.61, University of Oklahoma Press

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Will Rogers
Work, Justice, Want
Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Will Rogers
Lying, Liars, Golf

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Will Rogers
Inspirational, Education, Stupid
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

Will Rogers
Liars, Reading, Differences
Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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