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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.
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A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
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Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.
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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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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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There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.
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Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.
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Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.
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The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
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A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.
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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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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
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People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
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My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.
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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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