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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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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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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.
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I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.
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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
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Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.
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We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.
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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. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.
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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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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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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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Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.
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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
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Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
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Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
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We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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