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

Quote by Will Rogers

Topics: Liberty Quotes, Speech Quotes

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

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

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with...

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with...

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and...

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and...

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we...

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we...

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is,...

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is,...

The whole thing about the women is, they lust to be misunderstood.

The whole thing about the women is, they lust to be misunderstood.

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.

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except...

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except...

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...

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places...

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places...

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't...

There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't...

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...

I tell you, all politics is apple sauce.

I tell you, all politics is apple sauce.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand,...

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand,...

Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would...

Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would...