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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
It must be nice to belong to some legislative body and just pick money out of the air.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt, all just to make some money quick.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
One realizes that even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbor’s household, and, underneath, another – secret and passionate and intense – which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him. One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day . . .
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
They are having quite an argument over (Treasury Secretary) Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The one way to detect a feeble-minded man is get one arguing on economics.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
There is one thing in common with all revolutions (in fact they are pretty near like wars in that respect) nobody ever knows what they are fighting about.
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Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
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Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Ar,’d year! Year of the struggle! No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisping cadenzas piano; but as a strong man, erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder, with well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands—with a knife in the belt at your side, as I heard you shouting loud—your sonorous voice ringing across the continent; your masculine voice, O year, as rising amid the great cities.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.