Will Rogers

People don’t change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

Will Rogers

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

Will Rogers

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

Will Rogers

People talk peace but men give their life’s work to war. It won’t stop ’til there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there is to promote war.

Will Rogers

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Will Rogers

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Will Rogers

Personally I don’t think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of the Legislature. You’ve got to work on his conscience. And his lack of a conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

Will Rogers

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

Will Rogers

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Will Rogers

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

Will Rogers