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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
Politician
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Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
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If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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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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Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
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It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.
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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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Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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Always drink upstream from the herd.
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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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The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?
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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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How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?
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In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell
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I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
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