WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/rogers-will/75769/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Will Rogers</b></a></p><blockquote>So we started in to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. Up to now our calling card to Mexico or Central America had been a gunboat or a bunch of Violets shaped like Marines. We could never understand why Mexico wasent just crazy about us; for we always had their good-will, and Oil and coffee and minerals, at heart.</blockquote><p><b>Will Rogers</b> (1879-1935) American humorist<br>Essay (1928-05-12), “More Letters from a Self-Made Diplomat to His President,” <i>Saturday Evening Post</i>, Vol. 200, No. 46</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/rogers-will/75769/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/rogers-will/75769/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=WillRogers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillRogers</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bananarepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bananarepublic</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=CentralAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CentralAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diplomacy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=economicinterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economicinterests</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=foreignpolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foreignpolicy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=gunboatdiplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gunboatdiplomacy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=internationalaffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internationalaffairs</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=naturalresources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>naturalresources</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petroleum</span></a></p>