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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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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
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Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.
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The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
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We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it.
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When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.
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Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
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People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
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Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.
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A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
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We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
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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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Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.
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You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through
the eye and not the noggin.
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Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
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You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.
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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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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.
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About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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Born:
November 4, 1879
Died:
August 15, 1935
(aged 55)
Bio:
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator, and stage and motion picture actor.
Known for:
The Bay
Judge Priest (1934)
State Fair (1933)
The Headless Horseman (1922)
Life Begins at 40 (1935)
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