Quotes About Will Rogers

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Wasn't it Will Rogers who said he never met a man he didn't like?" "Whoever it was, I'd say he didn't get out much.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

Well, the good old days with most of us was when we didn't earn enough to pay an income tax.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.

And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!