Quote

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.

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
Farmers
Candidates
Debt
Vote
Instead
Debts
Looks
Relieve
Trying
Farmer
Like
Agriculture

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Will Rogers
Image
Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.
Will Rogers
Image
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.
Will Rogers
Image
Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.
Will Rogers
Image
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
Will Rogers
Image
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
Will Rogers
Image
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
Image
Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
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
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?
Will Rogers
Image
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
Will Rogers
Image
Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.
Will Rogers
Image
I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, Put it in land, and you can always walk on it. We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.
Will Rogers
Image
It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
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
You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
Will Rogers
Image
The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.
Will Rogers
Image
Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.
Will Rogers
Image
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're doing. Amen.
Will Rogers
Image
You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
Will Rogers