Will Rogers - Quotes 201-300
What this country needs is more working men and fewer politicians.
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A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.
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The crime of taxation is not in the taking of it, it's in the way that it's spent.
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It's a great country but you can't live in it for nothing.
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Comedians haven't improved. Nothing has improved but taxes.
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People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
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The difference between a bandit and a patriot is a good press agent.
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Every war has been preceded by a peace conference. That's what always starts the next war.
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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
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It takes quite a sense of humor for these people to understand us shaking hands with one hand and shooting with the other.
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Wars will never be a success until you have a referee and until they announce before they start just what it's for.
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A bunch of American tourists were hissed and stoned yesterday in France but not until they had finished buying.
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Woe be to a weak nation if they live by a strong one.
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Draft capital as well as men. Boys, there ain't going to be no war.
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Here we go again! America is running true to form, fixing some other country's business for 'em just as we always do. We mean well, but will wind up in wrong as usual.
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They got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.
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There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned income. Then will come the real problem. Who among us on salary are earning our income?
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
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When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on lower taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by children. But no child has ever seen it. Neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered.
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Put a good tax on beer and that would take care of the unemployment fund.
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People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.
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It's not what you pay a man but what he costs you that counts.
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You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
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Cities are like gentlemen. They are born not made.
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The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are, you require the same amount of nourishment.
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There is not a voter in America that twenty-four hours after any speech was made could remember two sentences in it.
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A President-elect's popularity is the shortest lived of any public man. It only lasts till he picks his Cabinet.
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I love a dog, he does nothing for political reasons.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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The United States Senate opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
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That's the trouble with a politician's life somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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Slogan: Be a politician; no training necessary.
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A statesman is a man that can do what the politician would like to do but can't because he is afraid of not being elected.
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Great artists say that the most beautiful thing in the world is a baby. Well, the next is an old lady, for every wrinkle is a picture.
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Call me a 'rube' and a 'hick,' but I'd lot rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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The time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.
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In this country people don't vote for, they vote against.
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The high office of President has been degenerated into two ordinarily fine men being goaded by political leeches into saying things that if they were in their right minds they wouldn't think of saying.
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As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw.
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Once a man wants to hold a public office, he is absolutely no good for honest work.
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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.
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One of the evils of democracy is you have to put up with the man you elected whether you want him or not. That's why we call it democracy.
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People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
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If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
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Education never helped morals. The most savage people are the most moral. The smarter the guy the bigger the rascal.
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The higher the education the higher priced drinks they become accustomed to. Prohibition will never catch up with education.
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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he's got a dog he's got a friend and the poorer he gets the better friend he has.
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What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.
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Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.
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When ignorance gets started, it knows no bounds.
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There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again.
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Nowadays it is about as big a crime to be dumb as it is to be dishonest.
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.
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None of them from any party are going to purposely ruin the country. They will all do the best they can.
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Farmers are learning the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
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Confucius perspired out more knowledge than the U.S. Senate has vocalized out in the last fifty years.
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The more education he gets the less apt he is to be a Democrat and if he is very highly educated he will see the apple sauce in both parties.
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The American people will vote dry as long as they are able to stagger to the polls.
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After a football game in Lima, Peru, five were killed. Up here we don't kill our football players. We make coaches out of the smart ones and send the others to the Legislature.
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Just raid the national treasury enough and you will soon be referred to as a 'statesman.'
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They ought to pass a rule in this country in any investigations if a man can't tell the truth the first time he shouldn't be allowed to try again.
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate Committee appointed to look into it.
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Lincoln didn't have a foreign policy. That's why he's Lincoln.
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George Washington was a politician and a gentleman. That's a rare combination.
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A president should hold office six years with no re-election. Stop this thing of a President having to lower his dignity and go trooping around asking for votes to keep him another term. Six years gives him time to do something.
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Politics is the only sporting event in the world where they don't pay off for second money; a man to run second in any other event in the world it's an honor. But any time he runs second for President it's not an honor. It's a pity.
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If I was a President and wanted something I would claim I didn’t want it. Congress has not given any President anything he wanted in the last 10 years. Be against anything and then he is sure to get it.
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There is people so excited over this election that they think the President has something to do with running this country.
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Being serious or being a good fellow has got nothing to do with running this country. If the breaks are with you, you could be a laughing hyena and still have a great administration.
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Everybody nowadays is suggesting ways of getting prosperous on somebody else's money.
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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. You can't broaden a man's vision if he wasn't born with one.
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Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
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A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
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A man can fool you with his mind, and his soul and his heart, but if you follow his feet you will pretty near find out where he is going.
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Nothing will spoil a big man's life like too much truth.
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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Nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated on.
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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
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This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.
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Nothing makes people more alike than putting a dress suit on 'em.
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Actual knowledge of the future was never lower, but hope was never higher. Confidence will beat predictions any time.
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History ain't what it is. It's what some writer wanted it to be.
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We cuss the lawmakers. But I notice we're always perfectly willing to share in any of the sums of money that they might distribute.
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It's going to be hard to make an issue of corruption. It's like the poor, it's always been with us.
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It's awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
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Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
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One seldom ever remembers meeting a Vice-President.
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I joke about prominent men but at heart I believe in 'em. I do think there is time when traces of 'dumbness' crop up in official life but not crookedness.
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The fellow sitting off looking at you can tell better how you are doing and what your prospects are than you can yourself.
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Theories are great, they sound great, but the minute you are asked to prove one in actual life, why the thing blows up.
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The world is full of men who do big things, but when you meet 'em they are not outstanding personalities. Pretty near everybody is almost alike.
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You can look at half the guy's stomachs in the world, and you can see they don't know how to order for themselves.
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I certainly know that a comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious, and I don’t want either one of those to happen to me till I am dead (if then).
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I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.
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Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country.
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