Will Rogers Quotes

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• Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
• Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb
• Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that…
• People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
• How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?
• There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
• We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
• Lord, let me live until I die.
• You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.
• The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
• Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
• It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.
• Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.
• People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.
• You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have…
• No party is as bad as its leaders.
• The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.
• In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
• Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
• We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

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