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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Will Rogers
Funny, Country, Sarcasm
"Creative Leadership: Mining the Gold in Your Workforce". Book by A. S. Migs Damiani, p. 168, 1998.

If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.

Will Rogers
Country, Becoming, Income
Will Rogers, James Smallwood (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931”

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

Will Rogers
Country, Running, Caring

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people

Will Rogers
Country, Inspiration, Men
Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Will Rogers
Country, Running, 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.92, Rowman & Littlefield

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers
Country, Baby, Inspiration
Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

Will Rogers
Country, Ideas, America
"Defending Liars: In Defense of President Bush and the War on Terror in Iraq". Book by Howard L. Salter, p. 40, 2006.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

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

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

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

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

Will Rogers
Country, Fifteen, Cigar

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

Will Rogers
Country, Life And Love, Business
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

Will Rogers
Running, Country, Travel

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

Will Rogers
Country, Freedom, Real
Will Rogers (1982). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers
Country, Political Will, Bunk
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.80, Rowman & Littlefield

Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for -- to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to Congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em.

Will Rogers
Country, Ideas, America

So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of than any other country ever had on the face of the earth-and yet we've got people starving. We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.

Will Rogers
Country, Names, People

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Will Rogers
Good Morning, Country, Jobs

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.

Will Rogers
Running, Country, Husband
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

Will Rogers
Country, America, Great Country

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.

Will Rogers
Country, Men, Law
"They've Got a New Dictionary at Ellis Island" (1926)

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

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

Will Rogers
Country, Home, Biographies
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.46, Rowman & Littlefield

You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.

Will Rogers
Country, Running, Causes
Will Rogers (1927). “There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia: & Other Bare Facts”, New York, A. & C. Boni

The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.

Will Rogers
Country, Men, Yesterday

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Will Rogers
Country, Inspiration, Hamilton
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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