“Between 1915 and 1935, ‘Cowboy Philosopher’ Will Rogers, who brightened the dark days of the Great Depression with words of compassion and common sense, became a Broadway star, a top male movie box office star, the highest paid movie star, the most popular radio star, the most frequently requested public speaker and the most widely read daily newspaper columnist in the United States.
In today’s segmented media world with countless options available in print, through broadcasts, or on the internet, many Americans choose what they like and become deaf to performers or speakers who do not fall within their narrow range of interest. It’s CNN or Fox News, Stephen Colbert or Sean Hannity, Oprah Winfrey or Meghan McCain. No one person can claim the kind of broad audience that Rogers enjoyed....”“Satirist and scholar H.L. Mencken called him “the most dangerous man alive” because of his expansive influence on the American population. Author Damon Runyan described him as “America’s most complete human document.” Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr praised Rogers’s search for more truth “that more pretentious teachers leave untouched......”
“Will Rogers: One of a Kind”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/will-rogers-was-one-kind-180975472/
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/will-rogers-about-will-rogers/692/
Quips:
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands.”
https://wiredpen.com/2015/01/30/will-rogers-trickle-economics/
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/249393
“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.”
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/249406
"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising, then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
https://www.successories.com/iquote/author/444/will-rogers-quotes/1
More Quotes:
https://www.successories.com/iquote/author/444/will-rogers-quotes/1
About Life of Will Rogers:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers
About Will Roger by his son (in Guideposts):
https://www.guideposts.org/friends-and-family/family/guideposts-classics-will-rogers-jr-on-his-fathers-life-lessons
