Will Rogers Quotes

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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.

Will Rogers
I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

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You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

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In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

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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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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

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You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

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Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

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A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

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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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There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

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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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Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.

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Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'

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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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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

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We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

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The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

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We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

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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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Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

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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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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.

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

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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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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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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

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

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