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• The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Way, Lawyer

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• George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, War, Long

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• Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

  Will Rogers

  Men, America, Mad

  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.229, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

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  Heart, Would Be, Ems

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• If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Cutting

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• It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Politics, Want

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?

  Will Rogers

  Light, Wind, Income

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• In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Territory, Being There

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

  Will Rogers

  Issues, Common Sense, Affliction

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

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• The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Horse, Modern Life

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

  Will Rogers

  History, Reputation, Mona Lisa

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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.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Years, Pet

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

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• Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Steak, Plates

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

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• Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

  Will Rogers

  Politics, Voters, Politician

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• We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.

  Will Rogers

  Volleyball, Laughing, Spells

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• People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Letting Go, Humorous

  Will Rogers (1992). “Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies”, p.44, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

  Will Rogers

  Trying, Affair, Manage

  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.17, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

  Will Rogers

  Character, Watches, Politics

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

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• American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

  Will Rogers

  Tired, Trouble, Minutes

  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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• Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.

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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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  Country, Men, Law

  "They've Got a New Dictionary at Ellis Island" (1926)

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

  Will Rogers

  Tombstone, Party, Government

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• No party is as bad as its leaders.

  Will Rogers

  Party, Leader, Politics

  Will Rogers (1982). “"He Chews to Run": Will Rogers' Life Magazine Articles, 1928”

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• I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Country, Husband

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

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• The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

  Will Rogers

  Hate, War, Ems

  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.202, Rowman & Littlefield

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