Will Rogers - Quotes 301-387
You know how Congress is. They'll vote for anything if the thing they vote for will turn around and vote for them.
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Why sleep at home when you can sleep in Congress?
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All Senators travel a lot. They all try to keep away from home as much as they can.
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Most people and actors appearing on the stage have some writer to write their material. Congress is good enough for me. They have been writing my material for years.
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Ain't it funny how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers we can recruit with nerve. But we can't find one politician in a million with backbone.
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Party politics is the most narrow minded occupation in the world.
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A politician is just like a pickpocket. It's almost impossible to get one to reform.
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Politics ain't worrying this country one tenth as much as parking space.
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More men have been elected between sundown and sunup, than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.
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The truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that could happen to you.
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If we could just send the same bunch of men to Washington for the good of the nation and not for political reasons, we could have the most perfect government in the world.
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Sometimes it makes you think we don't need a different man as much as we need different advisors for the same man.
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Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold.
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Rumor travels faster but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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Ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us in the world and that's selfishness.
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Everybody likes to hear it straight from the boss, even if you are going to get fired.
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I hope we never see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
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There is a great tendency all over the country now to be high brow. More people should work for their dinner instead of dressing for it.
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The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes.
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No animal in the world gets quite as hungry as a Democrat. He would rather make a speech than a dollar.
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No mathematician in this country has ever been able to figure out how many hundred straw votes it takes to equal one legitimate vote.
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You could keep politics clean if you could figure out some way so your government never hired anyone.
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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There ain't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
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Both parties have their good times and bad times at different times. Good when they are out. Bad when they are in.
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If by some divine act of providence we could get rid of both parties and hire some good men, like any other good business does, that would be sitting pretty.
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Republicans have always been the party of big business. The Democrats of small business. So you just take your pick. The Democrats have their eye on a dime and the Republicans on a dollar.
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Republicans want a man that can lend dignity to the office. Democrats want a man that will lend some money.
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If a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
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You've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
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The football season is about over. Education never had a more financial year. School will commence now.
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Banking and after dinner speaking are two of the most non-essential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform if they are.
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When you straddle a thing, it takes a long time to explain it.
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Nothing breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.
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The Republicans mopped up, the Democrats gummed up, and I will now try and sum up. Things are terribly dull now. We won't have any more serious comedy until Congress meets.
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A flock of Democrats will replace a mess of Republicans. It won't mean a thing. They will go in like all the rest of 'em. Go in on promises and come out on alibis.
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I hope some of the men who get the most votes will be elected.
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I generally give the party in power, whether Republican or Democrat, the more digs because they are generally doing the country more damage. The party in power drawing a salary is to be knocked.
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There is no argument in the world carries the hatred that a religious belief one does. The more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
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I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.
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If they are going to argue religion in the church instead of teaching it, no wonder you see more people at a circus than at a church.
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Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept but they can be understood.
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The Ministry in all denominations are the poorest paid workers in the world. They would form a union and demand more pay, but they don't get enough to pay dues into a union so they can't form one.
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They were very religious people that come over here from the old country. They were very human. They would shoot a couple of Indians on their way to every prayer meeting.
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A wife is the cheapest thing you can get in the long run in the female line.
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Make every speaker as soon as he tells all he knows, sit down. That will shorten our speeches so much you will be out by lunch time.
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Terrible to have a law telling you you got to do something. But you ain't going to do it unless there is.
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Personally I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of the Legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of a conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
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Best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what's the matter. He's just got to know.
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There is nothing that keeps poor people poor as much as paying doctor bills.
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Two things that tickle the fancy of our citizens, one is let them act on a committee, and the other is to promise to let him walk in a parade. What America needs is more mileage out of our parades.
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You would be surprised what there is to see in this great country within 200 miles of where any of us live. I don't care what state or what town.
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I have not aligned myself with any party. Sitting tight waiting for an attractive offer.
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Republicans take care of big money, for big money takes care of them.
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A cannibal is a good deal like a Democrat, they are forced to live off each other.
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The platform will always be the same, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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Democrats take the whole thing as a joke. Republicans take it serious but run it like a joke.
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The Republican platform promises to do better. I don't think they have done so bad. Everybody's broke but them.
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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
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There ought to be a law against anybody going to Europe until they had seen the things we have in this country.
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When newspapers knock a man a lot, there is sure to be a lot of good in him.
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It takes nerve to be a Democrat, but it takes money to be a Republican.
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Let this country get hungry and they are going to eat, no matter what happens to budgets, income taxes or Wall Street. Washington mustn't forget who rules when it comes to a show down.
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America can carry herself and get along in pretty fair shape, but when she stops and picks up the whole world and puts it on her shoulders she just can't 'get it done.'
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I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.
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We should never reach so high that we would ever forget those who helped us get there.
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What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that anyone can ask.
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This country is bigger than Wall Street. If they don't believe it, show 'em the map.
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Some people spend a lifetime juggling with words, with not an idea in a carload.
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Why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth.
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We shouldn't elect a President. We should elect a magician.
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I never met a man I didn't like.
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Remember, write to your Congressman. Even if he can't read, write to him.
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No man is great if he thinks he is.
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My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
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Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.
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This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.
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A man only learns by two things, one is reading, and the other is association with smarter people.
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America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.
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There is one thing in common with all revolutions (in fact they are pretty near like wars in that respect) nobody ever knows what they are fighting about.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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