Will Rogers Quotes
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Rogers, Will. The Autobiography of Will Rogers. Edited by Donald Day, Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Liberia was founded by American Blacks who dominated the Government until Doe shot the President on Television and seized the government. He was a member of the majority Krahn tribe which wanted to control the government. Under Doe the Liberian economy collapsed and civil rights evaporated.
Talking to young elementary and junior high school students.
In Dolgoff’s era, his argument was that the political parties were so powerful that it was they who controlled who held public office, not the voters. And the parties were controlled by a few party leaders. However, when the system was reformed in the latter part of the 20th century, the individual incumbent member of Congress in America was so hard to dislodge due to the role of money and the advantage of incumbency, that the class of professional politicians was still very powerful. Reform had reduced the control of political parties but not politicians.
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. He was a Cherokee citizen born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.
