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The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. (Will Rogers)
So when all the yielding and objections is over, the other Senator said, "I object to the remarks of a professional joker being put into the Congressional Record." Taking a dig at me, see? They didn't want any outside fellow contributing. View quote
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why” I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved. View quote
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Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. View quote
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I am not so much concerned with the return on capital as I am with the return of capital. View quote
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When you meet people, no matter what opinion you might have formed about them beforehand, why, after you meet them and see their angle and their personality, why, you can see a lot of good in all of them. View quote
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. View quote
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth. View quote
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Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it. View quote
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"I bet you if I had met him and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I dident like. When you meet people, no matter what opinion you might have formed about them beforehand, why, after you meet them and see their angle and their personality, why, you can see a lot of good in all of them. View quote
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Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans. (Will Rogers)
If we ever pass out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died of the delusion that she had moral leadership.' View quote
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law and every time they make a law it's a joke. View quote
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The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent. View quote
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I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace. View quote
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. View quote
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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. View quote
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When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. View quote
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything. View quote
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You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed. View quote
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If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there. (Will Rogers)
Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet. View quote
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We have the best Congress money can buy. View quote
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. View quote
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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. View quote
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