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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where confidence is. And just who you want it restored to.
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Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
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Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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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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If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
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If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
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You know Lincoln's famous remark about God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them? Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
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Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
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This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.
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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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