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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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Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.
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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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If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
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It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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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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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
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I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.
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The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
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The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
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