Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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Will Rogers
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About Will Rogers
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and w…
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your ene…
Politics is applesauce.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.