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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
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I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
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Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.
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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
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It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.
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This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
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A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.
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These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.
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Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
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I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
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Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
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Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals
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If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.
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Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
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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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