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Government Quotes by Will Rogers
- The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
- People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
- How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?
- All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government…
- I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!…
- There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
- The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we…
- It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
- This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people…
- Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane…
- Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in…
- Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
- There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them…
- Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he…
- There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the…
- A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good…
- Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will…
- 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…
- President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government…
- If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until…
- Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it…
- Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
- I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
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