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Will Rogers Inspirational Quotes (685)

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We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
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We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.
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American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
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We do more talking progress than we do progressing.
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It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
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With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!
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The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
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People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
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When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.
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I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.
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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
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Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
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With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.
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If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
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Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
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You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.
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