Will Rogers Quotes

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. — Will Rogers

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

Elections are a good deal like marriages, there’s no accounting for anyone’s taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it’s the same with Public Officials. — Will Rogers

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. — Will Rogers

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for. — Will Rogers

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing — and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even — Will Rogers

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. — Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), “Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes”

The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. — Will Rogers

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? — Will Rogers