The American people are a very generous people and will forgive…

Quote byWill Rogers · 1879–1935

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Illiterate Digest (1924).

English (original)

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

— Will Rogers

Papers say: "Congress is deadlocked and can't act." I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country.

It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run ... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.

The chances are telling the truth is what got him there

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.