America Quotes by Will Rogers

America has the best politicians money can buy.

— Will Rogers

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

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The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

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America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.

— Will Rogers

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

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The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.

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Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.

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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she…

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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it…

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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it…

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Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending…

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The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't…

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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it…

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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book,…

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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why…

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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party,…

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One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have…

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Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em…

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We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there…

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If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change…

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You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't…

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There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law,…

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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said,…

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America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never…

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Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for --…

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You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

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If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

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America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.

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It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us…

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We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for…

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I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

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

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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

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The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what…

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I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going…

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

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An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be…

— Will Rogers

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

— Will Rogers