Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
Politician
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
William Rogers
Week
Flat
War
Flats
Fall
Soldiers
Take
Soldier
Thing
Essential
Would
Essentials
Diplomats
Starting
Finishing
Military
Diplomacy

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
Will Rogers
Image
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
Will Rogers
Image
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.
Will Rogers
Image
There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?
Will Rogers
Image
There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.
Will Rogers
Image
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
Will Rogers
Image
She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
Will Rogers
Image
Work to make a living serve to make a life.
Will Rogers
Image
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
Will Rogers
Image
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers
Image
I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
Will Rogers
Image
Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.
Will Rogers
Image
The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
Will Rogers
Image
There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
Will Rogers
Image
I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
Will Rogers
Image
A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.
Will Rogers
Image
Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
Will Rogers
Image
The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
Will Rogers
Image
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.
Will Rogers
Image
Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.
Will Rogers