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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
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You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
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The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.
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Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.
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The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.
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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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Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.
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The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
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It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
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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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We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
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It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
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I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
Will Rogers
Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise what they would do if they got in. But the Republicans have to promise what they would do and then explain why they haven't already done it.
Will Rogers
