L. W Rogers Quotes

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.

A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?

Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.

We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it

Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.

If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.

I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.