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People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

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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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I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
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Don't invite me if you don't want me.
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I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
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Never miss a chance to shut up
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.
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We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.
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It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.
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... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.
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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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Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach
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The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
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You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
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Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.
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