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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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Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.
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When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
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Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
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Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.
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The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
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People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
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We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.
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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.
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Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
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What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.
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We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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