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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Will Rogers

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.
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In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
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America has the best politicians money can buy.
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Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
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We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
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No man is great if he thinks he is.
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
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If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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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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The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.
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When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
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He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
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