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Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
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George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.
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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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Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.
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Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
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Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.
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There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
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A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
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Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is Yokel, but San Francisco is City at Heart.
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When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
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We fed 'em Xmas and New Years now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
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A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
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Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing.
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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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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.
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