"Things in our country run in spite of……" — Will Rogers
"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it."
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622 Quotes by Will Rogers
Will Rogers has 622 quotes on this site.
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The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to…
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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
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So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you…
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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;…
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have…
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries,…
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There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
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The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which…
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More Aid Quotes
This quote is filed under Aid Quotes,
one of 747 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their…
— Conrad Black
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with…
— Bono
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call,…
— James Buchan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
— Paul Cezanne
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual…
— William Ellery Channing
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