Will Rogers didn't even know Joe Lieberman when he said, "There ought to be

[change_notfinetuning]

one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."


And, while I'm at it, here are a few more observations (all quotes) from Will Rogers, as timely as ever:


I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

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

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

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'.

[Ozymanithrax]

1. And, definitely, this was the best...

"Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans."

Thanks for that.

[guitar man]

2. And he certainly didn't know Joe

when he said "I never met a man I didn't like" ;)

[JuniperLea]

3. The "electric fence" quote is my all-time favorite...

I had it as a sig-line for a long time, and I still post it on occasion.

There'll never be another quite like him!

[truedelphi]

4. Here is Obama's take on Will Roger's quip

"I never met a man I didn't like."

Obama - "I never met a Coporate Person I didn't like!"