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When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.

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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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I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
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Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
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You know Lincoln's famous remark about God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them? Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
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Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
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Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.
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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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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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It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.
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I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.
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You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
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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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It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
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