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Post by acptulsa on Jun 24, 2016 12:39:17 GMT -8
'If a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jul 13, 2016 13:00:49 GMT -8
'I hope some of the men who got the most votes get elected.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 12:34:02 GMT -8
'More men were elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 12:36:07 GMT -8
'Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 12:38:18 GMT -8
'Been reading Sunday's casualty list from automobiles. It looks like everybody gets run over but presidential candidates. Is there no justice in the world?'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 12:40:38 GMT -8
'When a party can't think of anything else it always falls back on lower taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter just like Fairlyland is spoken of and dreamed of by children. But no child has ever seen it. Niether has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered.--Will Rogrs
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 12:41:49 GMT -8
'The Republican platform promises to do better. I don't think they have done so bad. Everybody's broke but them.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 13:20:09 GMT -8
'A cannibal is a good deal like a Democrat--they are forced to live off each other.'
'Republicans take care of big money, for big money takes care of them.'
This seems like one of the few things that have changed since Will Rogers' day. Corporations finally figured out that regulations keep small business from competing with them, and Democrats became their pets.
' If by some act of Providence we could get rid of both parties and hire some good men, like any other good business does, that would be sitting pretty.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 13:22:20 GMT -8
'Party politics is the most narrow minded occupation in the world.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 13:31:11 GMT -8
'Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 17:07:14 GMT -8
'I was born on November 4th, which is election day. My birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days of the year.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 17:08:30 GMT -8
'So much money is being spent on the campaigns that I doubt if either man... are worth what it will cost to elect them.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 17:10:03 GMT -8
'The more education he gets the less apt he is to be a Democrat, and if he is very highly educated he will see the apple sauce in both parties.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 17:10:51 GMT -8
'Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 22, 2017 14:09:08 GMT -8
'The promising season ends [on Election Day] and at about eight o'clock that same night, the alibi season opens, and lasts for the next four years.'--Will Rogers
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