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Will Rogers Quotes about Inspiration

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

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

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

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

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 258, 1979.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Daily Telegram number 2678 on March 06, 1935. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Newspaper article, 15 Feb. 1925, in Paula McSpadden Grove The Will Rogers Book (1961) p. 193

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

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

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it

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

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

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

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

"The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America". Book by Daniel Joseph Boorstein, 1963.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Daily Telegram number 2678 on March 06, 1935. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.