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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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There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.
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There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.
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It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.
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If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.
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The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.
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I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.
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There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people
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I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
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I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
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A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs
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Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
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You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.
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A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
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I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
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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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