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We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
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We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.
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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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You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.
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The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
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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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One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.
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The country has gone sane and got back to horses.
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Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.
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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.
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Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
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Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.
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There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
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If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
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The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.
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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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