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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.
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That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
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In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.
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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
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This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
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We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.
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One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
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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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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know
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I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
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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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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 more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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