Quotes by Will Rogers

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

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

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

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

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.