We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.

Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927 (ed. Oklahoma State Univ Pr, 1981) - ISBN: 9780914956167