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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.
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Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
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We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.
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We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
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A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.
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Never miss a chance to shut up
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
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