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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
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Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.
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There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
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We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?
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America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
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If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.
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We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.
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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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Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.
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The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has 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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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 only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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