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Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
-Will Rogers
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For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.
-Will Rogers
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
-Will Rogers
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There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.
-Will Rogers
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We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
-Will Rogers
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Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
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I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
-Will Rogers
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And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.
-Will Rogers
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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive 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 cant confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.
-Will Rogers
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I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
-Will Rogers
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I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will give you my word that, in case of my appointment, I will not be a Republican; I will do my best to pull with you, and not embarrass you. In fact, my views on European affairs are so in accord with You, Mr. President, that I might almost be suspected of being a Democrat.
-Will Rogers
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.
-Will Rogers
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Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in this joyful season. It's the start of a New Year of trials and tribulations, and if everybody that does anything gets caught, it will be mostly trials.
-Will Rogers
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Adversity
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
-Will Rogers
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Advertising
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One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
-Will Rogers
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America
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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Ancestry, Ancestors
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My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
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Banks / Banking
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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.
-Will Rogers, April 2, 1929
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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.
-Will Rogers, January 22, 1932
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Belief
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There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
-Will Rogers
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Charity
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I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
-Will Rogers
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Communism
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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
-Will Rogers
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
-Will Rogers
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Congress
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There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
-Will Rogers
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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.
-Will Rogers
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