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Post by acptulsa on Apr 7, 2016 11:21:25 GMT -8
Cowboy, Indian, gaucho, rope trick artist, stand up comic, columnist, Hollywood star, polo player and all around good guy Will Rogers on the subject of the federal government.
'Coolidge is the first president to figure out that what Americans want is to be let alone.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 7, 2016 12:27:28 GMT -8
'This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 7, 2016 13:02:04 GMT -8
'Lord, the money we do spend on government. And it's not a bit better government than we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 7, 2016 16:30:54 GMT -8
'I didn't know before I got there and they told me all this--that Rome had Senators. Now I know why it declined.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 10, 2016 9:35:08 GMT -8
'Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the president crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 12, 2016 8:23:27 GMT -8
'Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. It's when they do something is when they become dangerous.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 27, 2016 7:17:55 GMT -8
'On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.'--Will Rogers And on account of the media fooling Republican primary voters into thinking their biggest losers can actually win, we have to reelect a Democratic administration no matter how many of its promises it never had any intention of keeping.
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 30, 2016 12:29:39 GMT -8
'We will never get anywhere with our finances 'til we pass a law saying that every time we appropriate something we got to pass another bill along with it stating where the money is coming from.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 14:54:18 GMT -8
'I have not aligned myself with any party. I am just sitting tight waiting for an attractive offer.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 18:39:45 GMT -8
'There is no way to stop this country. Just quit listening to the politicians...'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 18:49:07 GMT -8
'I tell 'em that this country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it I show 'em a map!'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 18:50:11 GMT -8
'A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 18:51:20 GMT -8
'Well, we cuss the lawmakers. But I notice we're always perfectly willin' to share in any of the sums of money that they might distribute...'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jul 13, 2016 12:55:17 GMT -8
'Why don't we pass a Constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on Earth.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jul 13, 2016 13:05:43 GMT -8
'Congress has passed the big inheritance tax. That gets you when you're done. I think it's a good law. You had use of the money during your lifetime, so turn it over to the government and they can do some darn fool things with it.'--Will Rogers
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