Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1944
AUTHOR:
Will Rogers (1879–1935)
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
WILL ROGERS.—Paula McSpadden Love, The Will Rogers Book, p. 177 (1972).
The author was a niece of Will Rogers’s and curator of the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma.
