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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
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I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
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You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
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Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
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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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Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
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We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
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You politicians have got to look further ahead you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
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Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.
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The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.
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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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