Quotes by Will Rogers

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.