Will Rogers - War Quotes

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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.

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

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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 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 poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

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

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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.

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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've every 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.

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Take the profits out of war, and you won't have any war.

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

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Diplomats don't mind starting a war because it's a custom that they are to be brought safely home before the trouble starts.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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