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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
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The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.
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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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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.
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The US is safest when Congress is in recess.
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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
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Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
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I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.
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You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it
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You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
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He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
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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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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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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
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There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.
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We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.
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