Will Rogers Quotes - Page 27

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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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  Running, Country, Real

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• Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

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  Baseball, Games, America

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

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• We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

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  Fighting, People, Independence

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

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• The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.

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  Agriculture, Being Thankful, Boards

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

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• One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

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  Two, People, United States

  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.167, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.

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  Government, President, Vices

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• Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

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  Leader, Able, Labor

  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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• Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.

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  Thinking, Years, Land

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• When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

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  Memories, Done, Good Things

  Will Rogers (1982). “More letters of a self-made diplomat”, Oklahoma State University Press

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• Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

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  Inspiration, Political Will, Drunk

  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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• They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.

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  Cutting, Winning, Bills

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• Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

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  Nuisance, Prison, Parades

  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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• Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.

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  Laughter, Long, Happens

  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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• In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

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  Spring, Agriculture, Goes On

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• Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?

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  Home, People, Majority

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• One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.

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  Recovery, Class, Two

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

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  Real, Land, America

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

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  Funny, Hurt, Humor

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• This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.

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  Encouragement, Agriculture, Might

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

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• Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

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  Voice, Dollars, Speech

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

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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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  Running, Country, Comedian

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• They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

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  Political, Politics

  Will Rogers (1983). “"How to be funny" & other writings of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.

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  Real, Smart, Thinking

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• Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

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  Men, Pay, Income

  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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• Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

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  Reading, Night, Diaries

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

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