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More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your Gags, and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
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What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.
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Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
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Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
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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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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
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Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
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Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.
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Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
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One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
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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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We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.
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If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week
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America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.
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You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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