Will Rogers Quotes
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Rogers, Will. The Autobiography of Will Rogers. Edited by Donald Day, Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
This extreme position illustrates how a politician, trying to defend a particular position can get carried away and lose rational sense of balance. The air we breath is free and quite valuable—essential really. The exercise of most of our political rights is without charge. Legitimate religions do not require payment.
Alluding to the high cost of the NASA space program and playing off the "free lunch" phrase that is used so often.
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.