Country Quotes by Will Rogers

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

— Will Rogers

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the…

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as…

— Will Rogers

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning…

— Will Rogers

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my…

— Will Rogers

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a…

— Will Rogers

I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while…

— Will Rogers

If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world.…

— Will Rogers

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men…

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed…

— Will Rogers

I know things are going to get better in spite of both sides. Then when things do get better, then you'll hear…

— Will Rogers

So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything…

— Will Rogers

The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises…

— Will Rogers

Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all…

— Will Rogers

If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear…

— Will Rogers

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

— Will Rogers

The country has gone sane and got back to horses.

— Will Rogers

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big…

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

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I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse,…

— Will Rogers

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only…

— Will Rogers

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if…

— Will Rogers

Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.

— Will Rogers

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be…

— Will Rogers