Will Rogers Quotes

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You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

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We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

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Everything is figured out down to a Gnat's tooth according to some kind of statistics.

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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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The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

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Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.

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A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

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Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.

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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

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Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

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If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

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We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

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I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

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A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

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It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

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How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

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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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Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.

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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals

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It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.

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Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

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I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

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Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.

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You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

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There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.

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You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

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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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People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

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There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

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