Will Rogers - Country Quotes

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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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Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to.

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There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.

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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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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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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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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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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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Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. "It's land ain't it? Well tax it then."

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Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.

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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

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I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.

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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.

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

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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

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The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

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Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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I not only "don't choose to run" [for President] but I don't even want to leave a loophole in case I am drafted, so I won't "choose." I will say "won't run" no matter how bad the country will need a comedian by that time.

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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

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Papers say: "Congress is deadlocked and can't act." I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country.

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