Will Rogers Quotes

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• Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
• A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
• When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
• People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
• Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.
• One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
• A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
• I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
• I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
• 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…
• I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
• Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.
• America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.
• America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
• Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
• A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
• Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
• Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
• The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
• I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

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