Will Rogers Quotes

• I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

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• I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.

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  Men  

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

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• When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.

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  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

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  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.113, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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• Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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  Funny  

  "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.

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• A company is known by the people it keeps.

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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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  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

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  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

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  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.164, Rowman & Littlefield

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• People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

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  Men  

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

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  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

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  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.

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• I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.

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• If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.

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  Men  

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• Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

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  Newspaper article, 15 Feb. 1925, in Paula McSpadden Grove The Will Rogers Book (1961) p. 193

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• A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

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  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

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  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.

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  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• I don't know what humor is.

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• When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

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  Funny  

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• You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

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  Funny  

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• Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

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  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

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• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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  The Illiterate Digest "Defending My Soup Plate Position" (1924)

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• When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

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• When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.

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  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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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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