Will Rogers Quotes - Page 4

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• You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

  Will Rogers

  Atheist, Lying, People

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• If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

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  Business, People, Mind

  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.45, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

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  Funny, Humor, Government

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• It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

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  People, Political, Awful

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929”

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

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  Men, People, Political

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

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• The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

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  Taxation, Way, Crime

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

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• There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

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  Funny, Humorous, Russia

  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.195, Rowman & Littlefield

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• No man is great if he thinks he is.

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  Business, Men, Thinking

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

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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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  Kings, War, Fighting

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

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• When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

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  Ignorance, Knows, Bounds

  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.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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  Time, People, Gossip

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 190, 1958.

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• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Crazy

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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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  Country, Becoming, Income

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931”

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• Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

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  Running, Men, Office

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• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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  Inspirational, Education, Work

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

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• There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.

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  Mutual Benefit, Benefits, Unions

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• It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.

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  Son, America, Waiting

  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.53, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

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  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

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  Night, Thinking, President

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• It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

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  Reputation, Lifetime, Minutes

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• All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

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  Hilarious, Ignorance, Paper

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

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• The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.

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  War, Believe, France

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• A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.

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  Moving, Men, Politics

  Will Rogers (1982). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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