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Post by acptulsa on Nov 10, 2017 7:20:08 GMT -8
'China is having a new war, and we are having trouble getting into it. We always have gunboats there, so if there is any shooting, why, one of our boats will be shot at and that gives us the usual alibi.
'But this time it seems we only had one gunboat and it had to maneuver around for days before it could get in the line of fire.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 10, 2017 7:24:05 GMT -8
'After a soccer game in Lima, Peru, five were killed. They only kill ten in a revolution down there, so two games equals one revolution.
'Up here we don't kill our football players. We make coaches out of the smartest ones, and send the others to the legislature.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 15, 2017 12:21:48 GMT -8
'The way Europeans talk about American aggressiveness, you'd think the last World War started in Tulsa.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 20, 2017 10:58:32 GMT -8
'We couldn't realize their attitude in not falling on our necks and blessing us for giving them the assistance of our superior knowledge of government.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 20, 2017 11:00:05 GMT -8
"Get us a good navy, and a good army, and more aeroplanes than anybody, and just say, 'Yes, we got 'em, but they are only to be used on the home grounds. Now lay off'"--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 20, 2017 11:02:04 GMT -8
'You can't pick up a paper without seeing where the Marines were landed to keep some nation from shooting each other, and if necessary we shoot 'em to keep 'em from shooting each other.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 20, 2017 11:03:33 GMT -8
'Siberia is still working. It's just as cold on you to be sent there under the Soviets as it was under the Czar.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 20, 2017 11:04:38 GMT -8
'We couldn't figure out why they didn't appreciate the fact that they had been shot in the most cordial manner possible.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 20, 2017 11:12:04 GMT -8
'They have a great many schools in Russia, which seem intended not so much to eliminate illiteracy as they are to teach propaganda.'--Will Rogers
Back then, that was a foreign concept to Americans...
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 24, 2017 12:23:12 GMT -8
"When some nation wants us to help 'em out they use the same old gag, that we should exert our 'moral leadership' and, like a yap, we believe it, when, as a matter of truth, no nation wants any other nation exerting a 'moral leadership' over 'em even if they had one."--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 24, 2017 12:57:25 GMT -8
'Now if there's one thing we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 5, 2018 18:40:03 GMT -8
'When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 5, 2018 18:41:41 GMT -8
"Diplomacy is the art of saying, 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 11, 2018 8:47:54 GMT -8
'What we forget is that every nation has to look at things from their own angle, not our angle. So every nation is equally cukoo. It all depends who is looking at us.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 15, 2018 8:51:55 GMT -8
'You can't get nothing without trying, and if no effort is made toward peace, why, we can't expect any.--Will Rogers
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