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Will Rogers Inspirational Quotes (685)

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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
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But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.
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I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.
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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
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Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.
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There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.
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I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
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I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
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Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb
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Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.
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Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.
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Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
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In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.
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My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
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