"If Stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can't it get us out?"
-Will Rogers
"It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble,
it's what we know that ain't so."
-Will Rogers
"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction."
-Will Rogers
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes
because that's where the fruit is."
-Will Rogers
"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot
easier 'n puttin' it back in."
-Will Rogers
"It's a good thing we don't get all
the government we pay for."
-Will Rogers
"There's no trick to being a humorist when
you have the whole government working for you."
-Will Rogers
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man
if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
-Will Rogers
"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this --
no nation is allowed to enter a war till
they have paid for the last one."
-Will Rogers
"Last year we said, "Things can't go on like this,"
and they didn't... they got worse."
-Will Rogers
"When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make
a down payment on a bigger bone.
He buries the one he's got."
-Will Rogers
"We always want the best man to win an election.
Unfortunately, he never runs."
-Will Rogers
"You can't say civilization don't advance...
in every war they kill you in a new way."
-Will Rogers
"The trouble with practical jokes is that
very often they get elected."
-Will Rogers
"Lord, let me live until I die."
-Will Rogers
"The Democrats and Republicans are equally corrupt --
it's only in the amount where the Republicans excel."
-Will Rogers
"If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?"
-Will Rogers
"Nothing you can't spell will ever work."
-Will Rogers
"We ought to put on our tombstone
'America died from a delusion that
she had moral leadership'."
-Will Rogers
"The health of nations is more important
than the wealth of nations."
-Will Rogers
"Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them."
-Will Rogers
"That's one thing about a little education...
The more you know the more you think
somebody owes you a living."
-Will Rogers
"A conservative is a man who has plenty of money
and don't see any reason why he shouldn't
always have plenty of money."
-Will Rogers
"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
-Will Rogers
"When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person,
don't be surprised if they learn their lesson."
-Will Rogers
"There ought to be one day - just one -
when there is open season on senators."
Will Rogers
"If you're ridin' ahead of the herd,
take a look back every now and then
to make sure it's still there."
-Will Rogers
"I am a Cherokee and it's the proudest little possession
I ever hope to have."
-Will Rogers
"You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war
as you can in one protecting your own home."
-Will Rogers
"Be a politician; no training necessary."
-Will Rogers
"The business of government is to keep
the government out of business -
that is, unless business
needs government aid."
-Will Rogers
"The best doctor in the world is a veterinarian.
He can't ask his patients what is the matter --
he's got to just know."
-Will Rogers
"I am not a member of any organized party -
I am a Democrat."
-Will Rogers
"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people.
We only get to vote on some man; we never get
to vote on what he is to do."
-Will Rogers
"I would rather be the man who bought the
Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it."
-Will Rogers
"In the early days... there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough."
-Will Rogers
"We are the only nation in the world that has to keep
a government four years, no matter what it does.”
-Will Rogers
"Let Wall Street have a nightmare, and the whole country
has to help get them back in bed again."
-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
"I never met a man I didn't like."
-Will Rogers
"The Lord so constituted everybody, that no matter
what color you are you, require the
same amount of nourishment."
-Will Rogers
"The crime of taxation is not in the taking it,
it's in the way that it's spent."
-Will Rogers
"This country has come to feel the same when Congress
is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."
-Will Rogers