“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”
"Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes" <!-- p. 72 -->
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Context: The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.
“You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”
The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
Variant: You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Daily Telegram number 2615, Mr. Rogers Finds the Wars At Home and Afar Alike (23 December 1934) in The New York Times, 24 December 1934 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E2DB173CEE32A25757C2A9649D946594D6CF
Daily telegrams
“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”
As quoted in The Image : A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1963) by Daniel Joseph Boorstein
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Daily Telegram #1597, Will Rogers Finds Larnin' Spoils One For Real Work (4 September 1931)
Daily telegrams
As quoted in Saturday Review (25 August 1962)
Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935)
Variant: People often ask me, 'Will, where do you get your jokes?' I just tell 'em, 'Well, I watch the government and report the facts, that is all I do, and I don't even find it necessary to exaggerate.
Variant: I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
“Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.”
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The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
As quoted in Dreams Come Due : Government and Economics as If Freedom Mattered (1986) by John Galt, p. 235
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“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”
Remark after the Versailles Peace Conference, as quoted in Wit and Wisdom (1936) edited by Jack Lait
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“Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back.”
The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers (2001)
“You've got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.”
Good Gulf radio show (24 June 1934)
Other
Weekly Article #59, 1924-01-27
Weekly columns
Nationally syndicated column number 518, And Here’s How It All Happened (1932), as published in the Tulsa Daily World, 5 December 1932.<ref>
Weekly columns
“No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.”
"I Accept the Nomination", Life magazine, 31 May 1928 http://books.google.com/books?id=zuINAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+party+is+as+bad+as+its+state+and+national+leaders%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage
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