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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.
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In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
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The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.
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It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like.
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
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There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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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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The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.
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Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.
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When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
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Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
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