Will Rogers never considered himself a hero or movie star. He
was just an old country boy who made movies and kidded Presidents.
He was kidding, wasn't he?
"Lord, the money we do spend on government, and it's not one bit better than
the government we got on one third the money twenty years ago."
"Our foreign dealings are an open book, generally a check book."
"It's just got so that 90 per cent of the people in this country don't give
a damn. Politics ain't worrying this country one tenth as much as parking
space."
Said his friend Tom Mix:
"I had the pleasure of knowing Will Rogers as a boy, looking into the future
through the lens of romance. I also knew Will Rogers as a cowboy in
the cow camps of Oklahoma, as the husband and father of a fine family, as
a respected public-spirited citizen pointed to with pride in his community.
In all this, he never lost his fine charm or his plain, honest, wholesome
homespun nature that was so familiar to all who knew him. His departure
was not only a loss to those who were close to him, but to everyone who came
in contact with the great comfort of his way of creating a bright day out
of one that had all the appearances of being a dark one."