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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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Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.
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A company is known by the people it keeps.
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Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
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One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
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Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
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Originality will be rewarded in any line.
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.
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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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There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
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Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.
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Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
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It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
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People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
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People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
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The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.
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