Will Rogers Quotes About Country
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I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.
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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.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
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Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for -- to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to Congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em.
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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.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. "It's land ain't it? Well tax it then."
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Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
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So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of than any other country ever had on the face of the earth-and yet we've got people starving. We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.
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The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.
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Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.
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Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.
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A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
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It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.
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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.
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The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
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America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
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If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'
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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
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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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I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.
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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.
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I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs
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Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.
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If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
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I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.
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You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
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