Will Rogers Quotes

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

Will Rogers
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.

Will Rogers
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.

Will Rogers
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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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.

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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

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The government keeps statistics on every known thing. But there is yet to be a statistics on how many laws we are living under.

Will Rogers
See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.

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It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

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We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.

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I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, "Put it in land, and you can always walk on it." We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.

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You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?

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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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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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