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: | The author was a niece of Will Rogers’s and curator of the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma. |
| SUBJECTS: | War |