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• Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

  Will Rogers

  Practice, Two, Communism

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

  Will Rogers

  Years, America, Care

  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.14, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

  Daily Telegram number 2678 on March 06, 1935. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Book, Two

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• In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

  Will Rogers

  Funny Things, Half, Whispering

  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 hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

  Will Rogers

  Journalism, Newspapers, Newspapers Journalism

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• Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Parenting

  The Illiterate Digest "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince" (1924)

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• You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

  Will Rogers

  War, Home, Killing

  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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• The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Law, Minutes

  "The Lawyers Talking" (1935)

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• My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Mother, Father

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

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• Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

  Will Rogers

  Lying, Age, Aging

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• You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

  Will Rogers

  Memories, Men, Remember

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• This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Would Be, World

  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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• Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

  Will Rogers

  History, Source, Misled

  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.33, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

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  Want, Human Rights, Drink

  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'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

  Will Rogers

  Party, Politics, Members

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• There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

  Will Rogers

  Hands, Long, Politics

  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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• Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Sports, Teenager

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• They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Years, Two

  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.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

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  Book, Political, Relation

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• All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

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  Government, Records, Awful

  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.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

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  Government, People, Don't Change

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• My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

  Will Rogers

  Native American, Ancestry, Boat

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• What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.

  Will Rogers

  Littles, Enough, Bits

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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.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Political Will, Bunk

  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.80, Rowman & Littlefield

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