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.

Quote by Will Rogers

Topics: Government Quotes

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put...

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put...

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look...

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look...

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association...

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association...

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give...

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give...

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till...

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till...

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them...

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them...

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there...

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there...

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a...

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a...

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that...

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that...

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary,...

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary,...

They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people...

They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people...