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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.
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There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.
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Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
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The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
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If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
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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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The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.
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The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?
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Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
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Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.
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