Will Rogers Quotes - Page 6

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• Be a politician; no training necessary.

  Will Rogers

  Political, Training, Politics

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

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• If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

  Will Rogers

  America, Evil, Temptation

  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.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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

  Will Rogers

  Funny, California, Oklahoma

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• I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

  Will Rogers

  Getting Older, Hills, Over The Hill

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• Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Practice, Common Sense

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• The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'

  Will Rogers

  Real, Government, Oklahoma

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

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• Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Running, Government

  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.92, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.

  Will Rogers

  People, Problem, Knows

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• I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Back When, Way

  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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• Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

  Will Rogers

  Hurt, Government, Body

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

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• I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Sides, Politics

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

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• Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

  Will Rogers

  Worry, Debt, May

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• We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

  Will Rogers

  Car, History, World

  "The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything". Daily Telegram #1355 (syndicated column). "Will Roger's Daily Telegrams, The Hoover Years, 1929-1931". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

  Will Rogers

  Successful, Men, Self

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• Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

  Will Rogers

  Drinking, Prohibition, Liquor

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• When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

  Will Rogers

  Giving, Lessons, Surprise

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• Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Inspiration, Men

  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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• The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Ideas, America

  "Defending Liars: In Defense of President Bush and the War on Terror in Iraq". Book by Howard L. Salter, p. 40, 2006.

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• There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

  Will Rogers

  Party, Office, Political

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• A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, Laughing

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• Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.

  Will Rogers

  Effort, Things Will Get Better, Get Better

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• We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Men, Greed

  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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• Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

  Will Rogers

  Government, Rome, House

  "Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as If Freedom Mattered". Book by John Galt, p. 235, 1986.

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• A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Ideas, Doe

  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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