Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [481-500] of 656 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.~ Will Rogers I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father'. ~ Will Rogers An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.~ Will Rogers America has a very unique record. We never lost a war or won a conference...~ Will Rogers Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.~ Will Rogers I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.~ Will Rogers I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.~ Will Rogers If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, 'America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership'.~ Will Rogers Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.~ Will Rogers The United States investigates everything -- usually after it's dead.~ Will Rogers We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.~ Will Rogers Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.~ Will Rogers The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities -- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Knowledge -- that is, education in its true sense -- is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind -- men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.~ Theodore Roosevelt No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.~ Theodore Roosevelt All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.~ Theodore Roosevelt In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.~ Theodore Roosevelt Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.~ Dr. Benjamin Rush Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print