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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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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The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
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Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.
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Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
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In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.
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That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
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With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!
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Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.
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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
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It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.
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I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em
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If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
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The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
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A man only learns by two things one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.
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Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.
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Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
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