Timeless Depictive True-To-Life WillRogerisms:
"As a matter of truth, no nation wants any other nation exerting 'Moral Leadership' over 'em---even if they had one. We mean well but wind up wrong, as usual." Sound familiar anyone?
"If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership." Sound familiar anyone?
"What's the matter with us? No country ever had more, and no country ever had less. Ten men in our country could buy the whole world, and ten million can't buy enough to eat." Sound familiar anyone?
"There is nothing greedy Americans won't carry off. The Grand Canyon is the only thing they haven't carried away yet, and that's only because it's a hole in the ground."
"America has a great habit of always talking about protecting American interests in some foreign country. Protect them here at home! There is more American interests right here at home!" Sound familiar anyone?
"All America has to do to get in bad all over the world is just to start out on what we think is a Good Samaritan mission." Sound familiar anyone?
"Imagine with all our crime, and all our immorality in the papers, and our small attendance in our churches, and about as much contentment and repose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea." Sound familiar anyone?
"Our President delivered his message to congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for. It's one of the few stipulated duties of the president---to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em."
"America is just like an insane asylum; there is not a soul in it will admit they are crazy. The president, being the warden, us inmates know he's the one that's cuckoo." Sound familiar anyone?
"It's not a disgrace not to be able to run a country nowadays, but it is a disgrace to keep on trying when you know you can't." Sound familiar anyone?
"You know Lincoln's famous remark about 'God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?' Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected."
"I am not a member of any organized political party---I'm a democrat." Sound familiar anyone?
"The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt---it's only in the amount where the Republicans excel." Sound familiar anyone?
"It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans." Sound familiar anyone?
"Republicans take care of the big money, for big money takes care of them." Sound familiar anyone?
"Politicians are doing the best they can according to the dictates of no conscience." Sound familiar anyone?
"I am just like a politician---the less I know about anything, the more I can say". Today this done over cell phones everywhere, all the time, reflexly, in loud voices, like parrots in love with their own parroted phrases in some kind of dull Gregorian chant, over and over, blah, blah, blah.
"Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously, and the politicians as a joke, when it used to be vice versa." Sound familiar anyone?
"It looks to me like any man who wants to be president in times like these, lacks something." Sound familiar anyone?
"A clean campaign is one where each side cleans the other of every possible vestige of respectability." Sound familiar anyone?
"Robberies! Where they used to take your horse, and if they were caught, they got hung for it; now they take your car, and if they are caught, it's a miracle, and they will perhaps have the inconvenience of having to go to court and explain." Sound familiar anyone?
"(These backer of the Iraq War) get their schooling from an Irish history book, you shoot anybody. The theory is---and they are just about right---that everybody that ain't been shot, should be shot."
"Never a day passes in (this country) without some innocent bystander being shot. You just stand around this country long enough, and be innocent, and somebody is going to shoot you." Sound familiar anyone?
"One day there were four innocent people shot (in Iraq). That's the best shooting ever done in the war. Hard to find four innocent people in (Iraq)."
"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock, and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
"There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the subject he was educated in" Sound familiar anyone?
"You know, Americans have been getting away pretty soft, up to now. Every time we needed anything, why, it was growing right under our noses. Every natural resource in the world, we had it. But with them getting less, and national debts getting more, there is going to be some work going on in this country some day. Something will happen and we won't be doing well." Sound familiar anyone?
"For a (Drug war ravaged urban dweller), he died a natural death---he was shot in the back." Sound familiar anyone?
"There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a religious belief one does." Sound familiar anyone?
"I have a solution to the problem of traffic and that is to raise the speed limit to (90) miles an hour, and make everybody go that fast, or be arrested. That would eliminate the slow, and kill off the fast."
"Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways. That would turn our boulevards into children's playgrounds overnight."
"What's the matter with the world? Why there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness." Sound familiar anyone?
Will Rogers died in 1935 in a plane crash in Alaska. Strange, but he sounds so contemporary.
