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
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.
Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will Rogers
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
Will Rogers
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Will Rogers
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers
It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.
Will Rogers
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers
“This constitution … squints toward monarchy, and does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American?” -Patrick Henry
“The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” Thomas Jefferson
“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so” – including that Will Rogers attribution. That quotation is just a slight variation on something of Josh Billings’s.