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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
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Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.
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He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
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The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President
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Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
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I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.
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Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it
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In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.
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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
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Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
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We have the best Congress that money can buy.
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You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.
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The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.
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Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
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Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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