Will Rogers

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Overall, we are moving in the right direction. We have started on the trajectory toward robust economic growth in Russia. Yes, this growth is humble, small, but it is also not a fall. Growth was at 1.5 percent last year.

The case for individual freedom rests largely upon the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

One could see that what you are writing was that today’s meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

I would prefer to think of anarchism as the libertarian left, and from that point of view anarchism can be conceived as a kind of voluntary socialism, that is, as libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist [Bakunin, Kropotkin and others.]

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Poor and suffering people do not have the luxury of indulging in fairy tales. Not uncommonly, their own experience gives them a grasp of realities that are well concealed by the intellectual culture.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

The happiness of society is the end of government.