If we ever pass out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died of the delusion that she had moral leadership.'
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Will Rogers, (Nov 4 1879-1935), US actor, lecturer, humorist; He is remembered as a Comedy roper in Ziegfield Follies and a witty columnist, 1926-35.