Will Rogers Quotes About Prisons

Quotes about: Prisons

• Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

  Will Rogers

  People, Nuisance, Causes

  Will Rogers (1974). “The Illiterate Digest”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Presidential, Insane

• A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

  Will Rogers

  Hands, Prison, Goods

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.164, Rowman & Littlefield

• You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Organization, Membership

• Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

  Will Rogers

  Nuisance, Prison, Parades

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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