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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Film Producer
Journalist
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Oologah
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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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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Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
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The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
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You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.
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You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.
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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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Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.
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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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Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.
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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
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Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.
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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
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It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
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I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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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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