Will Rogers: Quotes

• Civilization

  You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.Will Rogers: The Autobiography of Will Rogers

• Communism and Socialism

  Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.Will Rogers: Autobiography

• Freedom and Liberty

  A Country can get more real joy out of just Hollering for their Freedom than they can if they get it.Will Rogers: The Autobiography of Will Rogers

• Government

  I don't make jokes—I just watch the government and report the facts.Will Rogers

• Haste

  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.Will Rogers: The Autobiography of Will Rogers

• Heroism

  This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.Will Rogers: The Autobiography of Will Rogers

• Humor and Wit

  Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.Will Rogers: Illiterate Digest

• Ignorance and Stupidity

  You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.Will Rogers

• Taxes

  The Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has.Will Rogers: Illiterate Digest

• War

  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.
  Will Rogers: The Autobiography of Will Rogers