Will Rogers

December 6, 1926 - "Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray, Oh, Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, Oh Lord, for they know not what they are doing. Amen. - Will Rogers

December 20, 1930 - A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving a Senator somebody to call horse thief." - Will Rogers

December 14, 1930 - Our rich is getting richer, and our poor is getting poorer all the time." - Will Rogers

November 27, 1932 - "Big business sure got big, but it got big by selling its stock and not by selling its products." - Will Rogers

February 22, 1925 - "This country is not where it is today on account of any man. It is here on account of the big normal majority." - Will Rogers

September 28, 1924 - "If you want to know how a man stands go among the people who are in his same business." - Will Rogers

1926 - "So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way." - Will Rogers

September 22, 1929 - "Just flew over Oklahoma City, where they have struck the big oil wells right in town. They are going to move the Capitol buildings to put in wells. State and Federal capitols have ruined forty-eight towns and cities in this country. No town has ever survived a capitol, so, as I see it, to strike oil is the only salvation." - Will Rogers

September 22, 1929 - "When you are visiting the beauty spots of this country, don't over-look Frank Phillip's ranch and game preserve at Bartlesville, Okla. It's the most unique place in this country." - Will Rogers

September 23, 1931 - "Rosewell, N.M....this is the prettiest little town in the West." - Will Rogers

September 8, 1926 - "Ireland treats you more like a friend than a tourist." - Will Rogers

September 20, 1929 - "Of all the airports I have been in Tulsa leads. In fact, they lead the entire United States with 4,500 passengers handled last month. We are putting in a field here in Claremore but we have to move fifteen or twenty blocks of big buildings." - Will Rogers

September 16, 1923 - "You know, if you have lost any one, look out here [California], because sooner or later they will come to visit relatives, for anyone that has relatives comes here so he can write back to the other relatives." - Will Rogers

September 7, 1924 - "Golf is the only game in the world where it takes longer to explain than it does to play. You play it in 2 hours, and it takes the other 22 alibiing for what you didn't do." - Will Rogers

September 19, 1933 - "Actual knowledge of the future was never lower, but hope was never higher. Confidence will beat predictions any time." - Will Rogers

September 19, 1931 - "Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom." - Will Rogers

September 7, 1931 - "A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke." - Will Rogers

September 21, 1931 - "This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something." - Will Rogers

September 1, 1929 - "There is two things that tickle the fancy of our citizens, one is let him act on a committee, and the other is to walk in a parade. What America needs is to get more mileage out of our parades." - Will Rogers

September 6, 1928 - "We don't have to worry about anything. No nation in history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go buy it on credit." - Will Rogers

September 25, 1932 - "It does seem that our country could be run better by someone, if we could only think who." - Will Rogers

September 14, 1928 - "If you ever accept anything don't do so with excuse, because if you ever start in alabi'ing it means you will have to keep it up." - Will Rogers

September 22, 1929 - "[I]t's a tough life, this thing of being President and trying to please everybody. (Well not exactly everybody but enough to re-elect.)" - Will Rogers

September 14, 1928 - "A Democrat is naturally windier than a Republican, He is out of office more and he has more time to think up thinks to say." - Will Rogers

September 12, 1927 - "The trouble with the Democrats is that they all want to run for President." - Will Rogers

September 13, 1927 - "Any time an American speaks perfect English is under suspicion. We know he is covering for something." - Will Rogers

September 14, 1928 - "A Democratic speech is hard to make sound reasonable, Because they are not supposed to be." - Will Rogers

September 23, 1932 - "Had a great night last night. There was static on the radio and you couldn't hear a single political speech." - Will Rogers

September 22, 1932 - "Now, there is nothing that makes a nation or an individual as mad as to have somebody say, 'Now this is really none of my business, but I am just advising you.'" - Will Rogers

September 21, 1932 - "As I told you all before, I seem to be the only person in America that has no idea who will win this election." - Will Rogers

August 28, 1932 - "Canada is a mighty good neighbor and a mighty good customer. That's a combination that is hard to beat." - Will Rogers

August 14, 1930 - "There ought to be a law against anybody going to Europe till they had seen the things we have in this country." - Will Rogers

August 9, 1933 - "I don't care how little your country is, you got the right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace." - Will Rogers

July 22, 1923 - "...Tulsa, Oklahoma, which would have been a real town, even if its people weren't greasy rich with oil, for it is founded on the spirit of its people." - Will Rogers

July 22, 1923 - "There ain't nobody on earth, I don't care how smart they are, ever going to make me believe they will ever stop wars." - Will Rogers

July 8, 1923 - "You know lots of people in Europe wondered how America could train men so quick. Well, when you only have to train them to go only one way you can do it in half the time." - Will Rogers

July 8, 1923 - "Well, as I go to press, everybody is on a trip somewhere if they work for the government. I wonder when the taxpayers take their trip." - Will Rogers

July 5, 1934 - "A statesman is a man that can do what the politician would like to do but can't, because he is afraid of not being elected." - Will Rogers

July 8, 1928 - "You know the platform will always be the same, promise everything, deliver nothing." - Will Rogers

July 1, 1931 - "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it." - Will Rogers