Will Rogers - Government Quotes

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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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See they conducted experiments on convicts... I don't know on what grounds they reason a man in jail is a bigger liar than one out of jail... The chances are telling the truth is what got him there... It would be a big aid to humanity, but it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it... It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.

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

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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

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I don't know jokes—I just watch the government and report the facts.

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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

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

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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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