Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Quote by Will Rogers

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Lord, let me live until I die.

Lord, let me live until I die.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud...

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud...

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year...

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year...

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi...

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi...

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me...

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me...

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only...

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only...

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new...

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new...

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's...

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's...

We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any...

We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any...

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works...

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works...

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you...

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you...

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that...

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that...

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn...

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn...