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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
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With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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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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Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
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There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.
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When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
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