Will Rogers Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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.

  Will Rogers

  War, Stopping, Lasts

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.

  Will Rogers

  War, Believe, France

• There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Pestilence, Helping

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

  Will Rogers

  War, Flower, Men

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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

  Will Rogers

  Death, War, Civilization

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 23 Dec. 1929

• A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

  Will Rogers

  Kings, War, Fighting

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

• You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, America

  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.19, Rowman & Littlefield

• Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see that it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

  Will Rogers

  Business, War, Home

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, America

  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.19, Rowman & Littlefield

• I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Giving

  "Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

• If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Cutting

• George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, War, Long

• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Military, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

• There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

  Will Rogers

  Country, War, Two

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

  Will Rogers

  War, Old Friends, Soldier

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Cooking

• The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

  Will Rogers

  War, United States, Lost

  Remark after the Versailles Peace Conference. "Wit and Wisdom". Book edited by Jack Lait, 1936.

• You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

  Will Rogers

  War, Home, Killing

  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.113, Rowman & Littlefield

• The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

  Will Rogers

  Real, War, People

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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

  Will Rogers

  Hate, War, Ems

  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.202, Rowman & Littlefield

• I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.

  Will Rogers

  War, Believe, Home

  "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

• Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

  Will Rogers

  War, Flying, Succeed

  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.110, Rowman & Littlefield

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