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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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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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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
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We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.
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President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.
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Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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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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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
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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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If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.
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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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Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.
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I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
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Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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