Will Rogers

My ancestors didn’t come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Will Rogers

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there’s nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

Will Rogers

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can’t remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

Will Rogers

Nations are just like individuals. Loan them money and you lose their friendship.

Will Rogers

Nations will give up their lives (even cheer about it). They will give up their money in order to give up their lives, but to ask one to give up their trade to prevent a war, well, that has never been done.

Will Rogers

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, they don’t hurt anybody. It’s when they do something is when they get dangerous.

Will Rogers

Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco.

Will Rogers

Never was a nation founded and maintained without some kind of belief in something… and that is religion. Never mind what kind. But it’s got to be something or you will fail at the finish.

Will Rogers

No animal in the world gets quite as hungry as a Democrat. He would rather make a speech than a dollar.

Will Rogers

No element, no party, not even Congress or the Senate can hurt this country now; it’s too big. That’s why I can never take a politician seriously.

Will Rogers