Will Rogers - Nation Quotes

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

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We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want.

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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.

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I don't know how a lot of these other nations have existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be pure and good like us.

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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poor house in an automobile.

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Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

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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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You can't pick up a paper without seeing where the Marines were landed to keep some nation from shooting each other, and if necessary we shoot them to keep them from shooting each other.

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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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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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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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