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There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

Will Rogers
Running, Men, Government

I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.

Will Rogers
Running, Men, Ideas

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

Will Rogers
Running, Winning, Men

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

Will Rogers
Running, Men, Office

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

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

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

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

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

Will Rogers
Running, Party, Political
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.151, Rowman & Littlefield

You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.

Will Rogers
Running, Party, Good Friend
'The Illiterate Digest' (1924) 'Breaking into the Writing Game'

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

The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

Will Rogers
Running, Business, Men

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.

Will Rogers
Running, Cutting, Thinking

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

Will Rogers
Running, Horse, Modern Life

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.

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

If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

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

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Will Rogers
Running, Men, Rivers
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.43, Rowman & Littlefield

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Will Rogers
Running, Opportunity, Doors

I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

Will Rogers
Running, Business, Class
Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

Will Rogers
Running, Art, Hurt

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.

Will Rogers
Mother, Running, Father

They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

Will Rogers
Running, Over You, Dying

Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'

Will Rogers
Running, Business, Home

Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.

Will Rogers
Running, Men, Talking

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