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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
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
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American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.
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My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
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There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
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Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise what they would do if they got in. But the Republicans have to promise what they would do and then explain why they haven't already done it.
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Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.
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It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
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Be a politician no training necessary.
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They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.
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The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.
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Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.
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