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Post by acptulsa on Apr 7, 2016 11:35:33 GMT -8
Will Rogers, who often as not did his globetrotting with pioneer aviator Wiley Post, once said...
'Here we go again! America is running true to form, fixing some other country's business for 'em, just as we always do. We mean well, but will wind up in wrong as usual.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 7, 2016 18:15:19 GMT -8
He was a witness to the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference of 1921.
'Well, the conference met today and appointed a commission to meet tomorrow and appoint a delegation who will eventually appoint a subcommittee to draw up ways and means of finding out what to start with first.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 9, 2016 11:07:08 GMT -8
'People talk peace, but men give their life's work to war. It won't stop 'til there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there is to promote war.'--Will Rogers
'Peace is like a beautiful woman--it's wonderful, but has been known to bear watching.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 19, 2016 13:15:19 GMT -8
How do we keep getting suckered into this 'nation building'?
'You can take a sob story and a stick of candy and lead America right off into the Dead Sea.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 27, 2016 6:26:59 GMT -8
'It always will seem funny to us United Staters that we are about the only ones who really know how to do everything right. I don't know how a lot of these other nations have existed as long as they have 'til we could get some of our people around and show them really how to be pure and good like us.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 14:32:39 GMT -8
'Our foreign dealings are an open book. Generally a checkbook.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 14:34:19 GMT -8
'You take diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 15:05:24 GMT -8
"Headlines in papers say, 'Europe criticizes U.S.' If memory serves me right we haven't complimented them lately ourselves."--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jul 13, 2016 12:56:50 GMT -8
'You can get killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jul 13, 2016 20:09:38 GMT -8
'It takes quite a sense of humor for these people to understand us shaking hands with one hand and shooting with the other.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 15:29:48 GMT -8
'They want peace, but they want a gun to get it with.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 15:31:24 GMT -8
'There is one thing in common with all revolutions (in fact, they are pretty much like wars in that respect), nobody ever knows what they are fighting about.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 18:24:17 GMT -8
''America can carry herself and get along in pretty fair shape, but when she stops and picks up the whole world and puts it on her shoulders she just can't 'get it done'"--Will Rogers
But if she isn't the least bit scared of borrowing herself into complete bankruptcy she can have quite the ugly empire--for a while...
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 15, 2017 11:26:26 GMT -8
'Somebody is always telling us in the papers how to prevent war. There is only one way in the world to prevent war, and that is for every nation to tend to its own business.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 15, 2017 11:30:07 GMT -8
'I don't care how little your country is. You got a right to run it like you want to.'--Will Rogers
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