A Quote by Will Rogers

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

Will Rogers

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Will Rogers
American - Actor
November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

Mahatma Gandhi

More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.

Robert Reich

Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

Jacob Zuma

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

David Frum

More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Human beings are psychologically far more afraid of bugs than they are of driving a car, whereas people get killed by cars every single day, and there is hardly ever a story of people getting killed by bugs.

Jeff Pinkner

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

Charles Kimball

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Ellen Key

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Henry Vaughan

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

Jay-Z

The Foundation and Pink Day are about celebrating and hope, I know when the time comes and I move on, if I have people celebrating my life and what I bring to the world I'll be happy.

Glenn McGrath

I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence.

Jefferson Davis

There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

Paul Broun

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.