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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
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The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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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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Lord, let me live until I die.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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When you're through learning, you're through.
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I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
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In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
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If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
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The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.
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I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em
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I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
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America has the best politicians money can buy.
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If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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