Will Rogers Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.”

“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.”

“A fool and his money are soon elected.”

“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”

“The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.”

“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.”

“I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'”

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

“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.”

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