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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man we never get to vote on what he is to do.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like.
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
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Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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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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The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
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The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.
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After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.
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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
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I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
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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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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.
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Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.
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The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President
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Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
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Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.
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Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
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When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.
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