Will Rogers Quotes
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers, 1879-1935, Cowboy Humorist, Quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time, 1979
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A few days later the President fired Brown from heading the relief effort for his poor handling of the crisis. Brown then resigned from the Government. It is not known whether the President could not recognize what most Americans did or whether he was trying to avoid the political embarrassment of firing on of his political appointments—one which had no previous emergency management experience. He had been a lawyer and his management experience consisted of managing horse shows.
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.
