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The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
WILL ROGERS, The Autobiography of Will Rogers
You can't say civilization don't advance ... in every war they kill you in a new way.
WILL ROGERS, New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
WILL ROGERS, "Helping the Girls with Their Income Taxes," The Illiterate Digest
I am not a member of any organized party -- I am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS, quoted in Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations
Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.
WILL ROGERS, Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.
WILL ROGERS, Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
As a young boy, I didn't know a Republican from a Democrat, only in one way: If some man or bunch of men rode up to the ranch to sit or stay all night, and my Father set me to watching 'em all the time they was there -- what they did and what they carried off -- I learned they were Republicans.
WILL ROGERS, Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
The Republicans always looked bad three years out of four. But the year they look good is election year. A voter don't expect much. If you give him one good year he is satisfied.
WILL ROGERS, Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
I will admit it has rained more under Republican administrations, that was partially because they have had more administrations than Democrats. There is no less sickness, no less earthquakes, no less progress, no less inventions, no less morality, no less Christianity under one than the other. They are all the same. It won't make 50 cents difference to a one of you. Unless you're foolish enough to bet on it.
WILL ROGERS, Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
WILL ROGERS, Sanity Is Where You Find It
I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
WILL ROGERS, The Illiterate Digest, 1924
Politics is the ruination of the country. Elect me for life, then they won't have to cater to any interest. If you elect one party to power, why the other party don't do any useful work for the next 4 years, only try to work some scheme to get back in. But if they were elected for life they wouldn't have to worry. The minute a man knows he can't get a political job, he may turn to something useful. A business that's doing well don't change people every 4 years. A man don't no more than get into the White House and learn where the Ice Box is than he has to get out again, then he is never any good for hard work again.
WILL ROGERS, Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies
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