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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
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This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
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Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.
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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.
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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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I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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