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You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.
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Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.
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Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
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After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.
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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man we never get to vote on what he is to do.
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I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
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If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
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Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.
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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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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
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Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
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The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
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If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.
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It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.
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We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.
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