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That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.
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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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No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.
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People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
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And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.
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If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
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Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
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