Will Rogers

A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.

Will Rogers

A thing that is free is of no earthly importance.

Will Rogers

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Will Rogers

About being a U.S. Senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught there.

Will Rogers

Actual knowledge of the future was never lower, but hope was never higher. Confidence will beat predictions any time.

Will Rogers

After a football game in Lima, Peru, five were killed. Up here we don’t kill our football players. We make coaches out of the smart ones and send the others to the Legislature.

Will Rogers

After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

Will Rogers

Ain’t it funny how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers we can recruit with nerve. But we can’t find one politician in a million with backbone.

Will Rogers

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out

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