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There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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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The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
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The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
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You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
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I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
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We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.
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People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.
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The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
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You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.
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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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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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