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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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We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
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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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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.
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Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.
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Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.
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A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
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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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I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
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Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
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Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.
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The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.
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Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.
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