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Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
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If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
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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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The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.
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I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get 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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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
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The US is safest when Congress is in recess.
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Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
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The country has gone sane and got back to horses.
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I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.
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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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Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.
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You politicians have got to look further ahead you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
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... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.
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Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.
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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
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