Will Rogers Quotes

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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

Will Rogers
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

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We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

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Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.

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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

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Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

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Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.

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Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.

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After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

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I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

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They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

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Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.

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America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

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It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

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It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction; the only one stuck is the last one.

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I know things are going to get better in spite of both sides. Then when things do get better, then you'll hear the yell that will go up. The Democrats will swear that recovery was due to them. Now the Republicans, they'll say it was due to them. Nobody wanted to claim the credit for the country blowing up, but wait until it starts picking up and they'll both be on it then. See?

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Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

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Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

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We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.

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I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

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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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Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

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There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'

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There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

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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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The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

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Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

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