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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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Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
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Work to make a living serve to make a life.
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Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
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When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
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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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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
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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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I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your Gags, and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.
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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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If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
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Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.
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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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We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.
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I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.
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The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.
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The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?
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