Will Rogers - Money Quotes

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A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money.…A Democrat is a fellow who never had any money but doesn't see why he shouldn't have some money.

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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

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Advertising [...] makes you spend money you haven't got for things you don't want.

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Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

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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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This election was lost four and five and six years ago, not this year. They didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickled down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow's hands. They saved the big banks but the little ones went up the flu.

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Society is any band of folks that kinder throw in with each other, and mess around together for each other's discomfort. The ones with the more money have more to eat and drink at their affairs, and their clothes cost more, and so that's called high society.

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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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While the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.

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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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I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

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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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We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

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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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