There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
Will Rogers

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
Will Rogers

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will Rogers

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

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will Rogers

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
Will Rogers

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
Will Rogers

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Will Rogers