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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.
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Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
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In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.
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You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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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 argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
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There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.
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Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.
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My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
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Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
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