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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'
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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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This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.
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There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.
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Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
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Lord, let me live until I die.
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I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
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The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
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The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.
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Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.
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In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.
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A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
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We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.
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The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
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